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  • PRAKASH ANAND
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    PRAKASH ANAND
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    inside of the address_book variable. What does it mean? I didn't get this

    Posted on Aug 16, 2019 by PRAKASH ANAND
    PRAKASH ANAND
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    • Ruby
    • Build an Address Book in Ruby
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    • Appending Contacts

    1 Answer

  • Richard Wentford
    Richard Wentford
    19,730 Points

    Append the contact variable to the contacts array inside of the address_book variable.

    Posted on Aug 18, 2018 by Richard Wentford
    Richard Wentford
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    • Ruby
    • Build an Address Book in Ruby
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    • Appending Contacts

    1 Answer

  • Nafeez Quraishi
    Nafeez Quraishi
    12,416 Points

    why ruby asks me to type additional "end" (s) apart from the ones needed for closing loop, function and class.

    Posted on May 24, 2018 by Nafeez Quraishi
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  • victor manda
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    Not sure I understand what it's asking me to do

    Posted on Feb 2, 2018 by victor manda
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  • victor manda
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    I dont understand what it wants me to do

    Posted on Feb 2, 2018 by victor manda
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    • Ruby
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    1 Answer

  • Jason Woo
    Jason Woo
    11,730 Points

    Excluding variables in search?

    Posted on Dec 13, 2017 by Jason Woo
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    1 Answer

  • Garret Saarinen
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    Is there a better way that this can be explained? I don't know exactly what this task is asking.

    Posted on Mar 14, 2017 by Garret Saarinen
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  • MICHAEL P
    MICHAEL P
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    What is the reason to use the gsub method? I am not quite clear on the use of it.

    Posted on Jul 22, 2016 by MICHAEL P
    MICHAEL P
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    • Searching by Phone Number

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  • Patrick Mockridge
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    I don't know what this question is asking of me

    Posted on Mar 9, 2016 by Patrick Mockridge
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  • michael randell
    michael randell
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    Need advice/guidance: I'm following but feel like I'm lost when it comes to thinking about doing it myself

    Posted on Mar 1, 2016 by michael randell
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    • Searching by Phone Number

    3 Answers

  • Sean Flanagan
    Sean Flanagan
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    Wouldn't it be more educational to let us students do the programming?

    Posted on Nov 17, 2015 by Sean Flanagan
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    • Searching By Name

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  • Miles Smith
    Miles Smith
    2,688 Points

    Build an Address Book

    Posted on Oct 20, 2015 by Miles Smith
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  • Jared Armes
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    Appending to an array inside of a variable

    Posted on Sep 30, 2015 by Jared Armes
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  • Patrick Shushereba
    Patrick Shushereba
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    Appending the contact variable

    Posted on Sep 27, 2015 by Patrick Shushereba
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  • Mark Weinberg
    Mark Weinberg
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    Call the find_by_address method on the address_book instance and send it any address.

    Posted on Aug 16, 2015 by Mark Weinberg
    Mark Weinberg
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    1 Answer

  • Mark Weinberg
    Mark Weinberg
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    Call the find_by_phone_number method on the address_book instance and pass it any phone number.

    Posted on Aug 14, 2015 by Mark Weinberg
    Mark Weinberg
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    1 Answer

  • Mark Weinberg
    Mark Weinberg
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    Initialize a variable called address_book set to a new instance of the AddressBook class.

    Posted on Aug 13, 2015 by Mark Weinberg
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  • kabir k
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    phone_number vs. number

    Posted on Aug 7, 2015 by kabir k
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  • Henry Miller
    Henry Miller
    7,945 Points

    I need help

    Posted on Jul 26, 2015 by Henry Miller
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    1 Answer

  • Henry Miller
    Henry Miller
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    What is going on???

    Posted on Jul 26, 2015 by Henry Miller
    Henry Miller
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    • Ruby
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    2 Answers

  • Daniel Wise
    Daniel Wise
    9,119 Points

    Not sure how to do this question!

    Posted on Jul 10, 2015 by Daniel Wise
    Daniel Wise
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    • Ruby
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    • Searching by Phone Number

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  • jay niceness
    jay niceness
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    in Build Address Book, challenge Task 2 of 2: "Append the contact variable to the Contacts array inside of the addr

    Posted on Apr 7, 2015 by jay niceness
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  • Sarah A. Morrigan
    Sarah A. Morrigan
    14,329 Points

    Strange code challenge error message (bug?)

    Posted on Apr 4, 2015 by Sarah A. Morrigan
    Sarah A. Morrigan
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    • Ruby
    • Build an Address Book in Ruby
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    • Appending Contacts

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