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Ruby Ruby Basics (Retired) Ruby Strings String Creation

Sorry... you are WRONG. The first quotation mark is followed by a newline, and thus the string will include four lines

Sorry... you are WRONG. The first quotation mark is followed by a newline, and thus the string will include four lines - the first of which is blank.

Jason Anders
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 Points

I'm not sure I understand what it is you are wanting to know/asking?

1 Answer

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points

Good eye, Chris.

For anyone wondering, this is the question:

The following code would create a valid string in Ruby with 3 lines in it:

string = "
My Ruby string here
Is created in three lines
This is a haiku"

And it's a true or false answer. The only accepted answer is true. However, if you go into workspaces, create a ruby file and add that code in, and than run the file, the console returns

|
My Ruby string here
Is created in three lines
This is a haiku

(pipe character just to hold the empty line, it's not actually there in the program)

and further, if you add puts string.lines.count it returns 4, so it is a valid string, but it creates 4 lines not 3, thus the quiz answer should only accept false as being correct.