Question

Hi I’m going through this loop and sending a list of words lines and a string str to match it. For some reason it’s not printing eureka though:

def search_array(str, lines)
    count = 0
    lines.each do |i|
        count +=1
        if str == i
            puts 'eureka'
        end
    end
end

FILE_LOC = "words.txt"
lines = File.readlines(FILE_LOC)
word = "hello"

search_array(word, lines)

Answer 1

This works for me:

class Looper


  def search_array(str, lines)
    count = 0
    lines.each do |i|
        count +=1
        if str == i 
            puts 'eureka'
        end
    end
  end

end

looper = Looper.new

looper.search_array('fish', ['taco', 'horse', 'fish'])

I’m not sure how you are running your program, but you can just copy and paste this into a text editor and save it as “LooperTest.rb”. Then open your terminal and change directories to the path with this file in it and run it like this: ruby LooperTest.rb