Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!feeder.news-service.com!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder2.enfer-du-nord.net!talisker.lacave.net!lacave.net!not-for-mail From: Nathan McDorman Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby Subject: Noob question re:returning nil Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 23:27:48 -0500 Organization: Service de news de lacave.net Lines: 14 Message-ID: <72f3e8defb9cb5e5475d2089568692b5@ruby-forum.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bristol.highgroove.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: talisker.lacave.net 1302755290 77656 65.111.164.187 (14 Apr 2011 04:28:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@lacave.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 04:28:10 +0000 (UTC) X-Received-From: This message has been automatically forwarded from the ruby-talk mailing list by a gateway at comp.lang.ruby. If it is SPAM, it did not originate at comp.lang.ruby. Please report the original sender, and not us. Thanks! For more details about this gateway, please visit: http://blog.grayproductions.net/categories/the_gateway X-Mail-Count: 381499 X-Ml-Name: ruby-talk X-Rubymirror: Yes X-Ruby-Talk: <72f3e8defb9cb5e5475d2089568692b5@ruby-forum.com> Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.ruby:2818 Hello all, I am a beginner programmer and a beginner to Ruby. I was just going through a tutorial book and trying to create some programs. The current program I am working on I am having trouble with. I have defined a method and the last thing in the method is a puts concatenation. The program runs and does everything correctly except for when I call the method it puts the string and then nil underneath. I thought the return value was the last value of the string so I don't understand why it is doing this. How do I get rid of the nil? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.