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Ruby Ruby Basics (Retired) Ruby Strings What are Strings?

Mark Bradshaw
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Mark Bradshaw
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Posted by Mark Bradshaw
Mark Bradshaw
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Not sure how this question should be answered. Please advise

I understand how to create strings in ruby, but the way this question is being asked is a little confusing. Below is the question:

Fill in the blank below. Fill in the blank characters to create a valid Ruby string.

website = ________Treehouse________

so my string would look like this: string = <<-STRING Hello World! STRING

I can't get my string to work in the questions' layout.

5 Answers

Mark Bradshaw
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Mark Bradshaw
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Mark Bradshaw
Mark Bradshaw
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This is very helpful, but is the second blank where I add the hello.rb?

Stone Preston
Stone Preston
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Stone Preston
Stone Preston
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all you need to add in the blanks are the quotes. nothing else.

Stone Preston
Stone Preston
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Stone Preston
Stone Preston
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Ruby strings are enclosed in quotes like so 

"Treehouse"

so you would need to put 1 quotation mark in each blank

website = "Treehouse"

note that you can use either single or double quotes ie

"Treehouse"

or 

'Treehouse'

but you can only use interpolation on strings enclosed in double quotes. so most of the time I just use double quotes

Mark Bradshaw
Mark Bradshaw
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Mark Bradshaw
Mark Bradshaw
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This is very heloful, but after the treehouse blank do I add hello.rb?

Mark Bradshaw
Mark Bradshaw
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Mark Bradshaw
Mark Bradshaw
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Finally figured it out. I missed the simplicity of the question. Thanks.

Martina Carrington
Martina Carrington
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Martina Carrington
Martina Carrington
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Thanks Stone, this is very helpful .

Alp Eren Can
Alp Eren Can
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Alp Eren Can
Alp Eren Can
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Hi Mark,

I think you are trying the multi-line syntax (Heredoc) for a single line string and that's the problem. To make ________Treehouse________ a string in Ruby, you just need to put a single or a double quote character in those blanks and that's it.

Mark Bradshaw
Mark Bradshaw
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Mark Bradshaw
Mark Bradshaw
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I finally figured it out. Thanks for the assistance.

Will Lucas
Will Lucas
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Will Lucas
Will Lucas
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Wow, this was an unnecessarily confusing question.

Mark Bradshaw
Mark Bradshaw
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Mark Bradshaw
Mark Bradshaw
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I eventually figure it out, but l felt the same way.

King Fola
King Fola
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King Fola
King Fola
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headline = "Website:_______Treehouse" What about this one?