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Ruby Ruby Operators and Control Structures Logical Operators The Or (||) Operator

Eylon Cohen
Eylon Cohen
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Posted by Eylon Cohen
Eylon Cohen
4,779 Points

What is wrong with that?

suppose to return true only if the variable is yes

def valid_command?(command) return command.downcase == y||yes end

ruby.rb 
def valid_command?(command)
  return command == y||yes||Y||YES
end

2 Answers

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Hi there! Your logic is spot on. However, there's still an error here. Because those are not surrounded by quotes, it is looking for variables named y, yes, Y, and YES. And there are no such variables in your code. We need to be comparing to the string values of what you've typed here. Take look:

 return command == "y"||"yes"||"Y"||"YES"

If you add the quotes around these, they become string literals and the challenge should pass. Good luck and happy coding! :sparkles: