User interaction on console program

ruby-talk
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Hi,

I feel a little strange that there are no explain (may be I omitted)
about how to get user input from console, like the C scanf function?

Shannon

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On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Shannon Fang wrote:

Hi,

I feel a little strange that there are no explain (may be I omitted)
about how to get user input from console, like the C scanf function?

Look in the chapter of the Pickaxe called “Basic Input and Output”.

If you specifically want scanf, you can download scanf for Ruby from
http://www.rubyhacker.com/code/scanf.

David

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