I want in brief to run a program to check if the user input is empty to let him reinsert the needed data and in case there is "s" in the string to be substituted with another letter
print "Please enter a string: "
user_input = gets.chomp.downcase!
if user_input.empty?
print "Please enter a vaild string... "
user_input = gets.chomp.downcase!
elsif
user_input.include? "s"
user_input.gsub!(/s/, "th")
else
puts "There are no 's's in your string. #{user_input}"
end
puts "Your new thtring is #{user_input}."
CodePudding user response:
The problem is with this line
user_input = gets.chomp.downcase!
according to the docs
Downcases the contents of str, returning nil if no changes were made.
So if the user inputs a string with only lowercase letters, nil
is returned.
Your function works if a user enters FOO
, then it works fine.
You're better off using downcase
instead of downcase!
. downcase
always return the string itself.
CodePudding user response:
As I understand you need get valid user input (with s
)
Now you are only using if
and this does not guarantee that user input will be valid
You can refactor to something like this
puts "Please enter a string with s:"
thtring = ""
loop do
user_input = gets.chomp
next puts "Please enter some string..." if user_input.empty?
thtring = user_input.downcase
next puts "There are no 's's in your string" unless thtring.include?("s")
break thtring.gsub!(/s/, "th")
end
puts "Your new thtring is #{thtring}."
CodePudding user response:
print "Please enter a string: "
user_input = gets.chomp.downcase
if user_input.empty?
print "Please enter a vaild string... "
user_input = gets.chomp.downcase!
elsif user_input.include? "s"
user_input.gsub!(/s/, "th")
else
puts "There are no 's's in your string. #{user_input}"
end
puts "Your new thtring is #{user_input}."