Question

I want this to throw an exception and die:

begin
  if meridian != "AM" and meridian != "PM"
    rescue
    puts MESSAGE
  end
end   

I googled a lot, but nothing seems to work. I want an if statement to throw an exception if it fails.

Am I looking at this the wrong way?

Answer 1

this worked

      MESSAGE = "Check your formatting"
      if meridian != "AM" and  meridian  != "PM"
          abort( MESSAGE )
      end