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Ruby Ruby Basics (Retired) Ruby Methods Method Returns: Part 2

melisa pettaway
melisa pettaway
9,556 Points
Posted by melisa pettaway
melisa pettaway
9,556 Points

ruby basics methods

having issues on the remainder code challenge. i have put in #{a} #{b} #{c} but it keeps saying my punctuation is wrong. tried it in workspace and it gave me the correct value. i am not quite sure what im doing wrong.

3 Answers

David Abel
David Abel
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David Abel
David Abel
5,199 Points

It should look something like this:

 def mod(a, b)
  c = a%b
  return "The remainder of #{a} divided by #{b} is #{c}."
end
Tim Knight
Tim Knight
28,888 Points
Tim Knight
Tim Knight
28,888 Points

One thing to note David is that it's more idiomatic Ruby to not state a return—Ruby automatically returns the last value within the method.

Tim Knight
Tim Knight
28,888 Points
Tim Knight
Tim Knight
28,888 Points

Melisa,

Make sure you have a period on your sentence, that sometimes causes a failure. Basically it should look like:

def mod(a, b)
  c = a % b
  "The remainder of #{a} divided by #{b} is #{c}."
end

or you could leave out the c variable with:

def mod(a, b)
  "The remainder of #{a} divided by #{b} is #{a % b}."
end
melisa pettaway
melisa pettaway
9,556 Points
melisa pettaway
melisa pettaway
9,556 Points

thanks everybody! i forgot the period at the end. lmbo!!!