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Start your free trialKent Drummond
8,309 Pointsnot sure what im doing wrong for the OR operator
def valid_command?(command)
if (valid_command == y) || (valid_command == yes) || (valid_command == Y) || (valid_command == YES)
return true
end
Moderator Edit: Added Markdown for code readability
1 Answer
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 PointsOK, so there are a few things you need to do here:
1) make sure the name of the variable inside the method is the same as the name of the argument that was passed into the method. command
was passed, and inside the method you are using valid_command
, which does not exist.
2) make sure that you are comparing with strings, not variable names - y
is a variable name, 'y'
is a string - what does the task tell you to do?
3) you can move the return
statement into the from of the whole thing, like this: return true if ...
4) you can get rid of all the (
)