I am looking for the proper way to do this in Ruby. I want to create an if/else statement that will keep looping until it finds the right answer. Example:
puts "Guess a number",prompt
$stdin.gets.chomp = x
if x == 5
puts "correct
else
# loop back to beginning and start over
end
You can use while statement to loop, if guess the number, then break, like this:
while true
puts "Guess a number:"
if gets.chomp.to_i == 5
puts "correct"
break
end
puts "guessed wrong, please try again!"
end
or use until statement:
puts "Guess a number:"
until gets.chomp.to_i == 5 do
puts "guessed wrong, please try again!"
end
puts "correct"
as @izaban said, loop...do also can work:
loop do
puts "Guess a number:"
if gets.chomp.to_i == 5
puts "correct"
break
end
puts "guessed wrong, please try again!"
end
loop do instead of while trueThis is a solution without using break:
guess = 0
first_run_through = true
until guess == 5
puts 'guessed wrong, please try again!' unless first_run_through
first_run_through = false
puts 'Guess a number'
guess = gets.chomp.to_i
end
puts 'correct'
