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

Raymond Rowe
Raymond Rowe
6,174 Points
Posted by Raymond Rowe
Raymond Rowe
6,174 Points

What's wrong?

It says make sure you return a nicely formatted sentence

method.rb 
def mod(a, b)
  c = a % b
  return puts "The remainder of #{a} divided by #{b} is #{c}"
end
Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points

You should do this:

def mod(a, b)
  c = a % b
  string = "The remainder of #{a} divided by #{b} is #{c}."
  return string
end
Kourosh Raeen
Kourosh Raeen
23,733 Points
Kourosh Raeen
Kourosh Raeen
23,733 Points

Hi xela888 - There's really no need for an extra variable to hold the string. It's much cleaner to just return the string. In fact, we could also get rid of c as well:

return "The remainder of #{a} divided by #{b} is #{a%b}."

1 Answer

Kourosh Raeen
Kourosh Raeen
23,733 Points
Kourosh Raeen
Kourosh Raeen
23,733 Points

You have both return and puts. It should be just a return statement. Also you need a period at the end of the string:

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