Not a Ruby person but trying to help a newbie

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Hi there

I am a C++ person but trying to help a friend using Ruby.
He is supposed to ask for user input by using an index number to change
the letter of a word given, like say “dog”. So the user it asked to
enter the index number, lets say 0 is entered by the user, and he then
asks the user to put a new letter in (letter is a variable), then he
wants to change the index of 0 which is the “D” to a “C” (where c was
put in by the user).

Can anyone help with this? How to do it please?

Cheryl

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Cheryl Cepak wrote:

Hi there

I am a C++ person but trying to help a friend using Ruby.
He is supposed to ask for user input by using an index number to change
the letter of a word given, like say “dog”. So the user it asked to
enter the index number, lets say 0 is entered by the user, and he then
asks the user to put a new letter in (letter is a variable), then he
wants to change the index of 0 which is the “D” to a “C” (where c was
put in by the user).

Can anyone help with this? How to do it please?

Cheryl

Here is what he has so far:

student_name = ‘John Wallace’
puts student_name + “'s WordWarp Game!”
require ‘zlib’
dictionary = Zlib::GzipReader.open(‘words3-8.gz’).read().split()
current_word = ‘dog’
target_word = ‘cat’

puts
puts current_word.to_s + ’ => ’ + target_word.to_s

puts ‘What is the index of the letter you wish to change?’
index = gets
puts ‘What letter do you wish to insert?’
letter = gets
temp_word = current_word.clone()

puts temp_word

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On Tue 2.Dec’08 at 13:24:28 +0900, Cheryl Cepak wrote:

I am a C++ person but trying to help a friend using Ruby.
He is supposed to ask for user input by using an index number to change
the letter of a word given, like say “dog”. So the user it asked to
enter the index number, lets say 0 is entered by the user, and he then
asks the user to put a new letter in (letter is a variable), then he
wants to change the index of 0 which is the “D” to a “C” (where c was
put in by the user).

my_str = “Dog”
p “Before: #{my_str}”

puts “Index?” ; i = Integer(gets)
puts “letter?”; c = gets.chomp

my_str[i] = c
puts “After: #{my_str}”

-drd