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Fancy Little Ruby Input Prompter

01.19.2008

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for i in 1..100
  print "Now at #{i}. Restart? "
  retry if gets =~ /^y/i
end

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regex
Ruby

Comments

Snippets Manager replied on Tue, 2007/04/10 - 11:52pm

Might have been more Rubyish if it had been: 1.upto(100) do |num| print("\nNow at #{num}. Restart? ") retry if gets =~ /^y/ end The 'i' and for/loop were unnecessary if you use blocks. :-) Might be more optimizations, but that one sort of leaped out at me.