Question

I’ve check to see if the program is recieving number and names and it is. I’m wondering why doesn’t it print “fred” when input number is 1?

number = ARGF.read.chomp
names = %w{fred betty barney}
if number == 1
  puts names[0]
elsif number == 2
  puts names[1]
elsif number == 3
  puts name[2]
end

Answer 1

number is a string, not an integer. You can either convert to an integer:

number = ARGF.read.chomp.to_i

or you can test against strings instead:

if number == "1"
  ...
  ...
  ...