Hello, Newb Help please :)

basically i started programming yesterday..
and i have a quick question for anyone willing to help me out with what is probably a really newb poroblem.

okay, here it is, loops...

puts 'Hello Sonny Boy.'
greeting = gets.chomp

while greeting != greeting.upcase
puts 'HUH?! SPEAK UP, SONNY.'
greeting = gets.chomp
end

puts 'NO, NOT SINCE 1950!'
puts 'Anything else you would like to say to me?'
response = gets.chomp

while response != response.upcase
puts 'HUH?! SPEAK UP, SONNY!'
response = gets.chomp
end



So is there a way i can add those loops together? man this is confusing... another thing im stuck on is I want my grandma in the program to not let me stop talking to her until i say bye in upcase letters, as you can see in this line (while response != response.upcase) but i tried adding the string 'bye' to that after the (!=), but i couldnt figure out which way would let me run the program. is there a way to do that so i cant stop talking to her until i type bye in upcase letters? thanks for reading about my brain stumps.

Basically what im trying to do is:

write a deaf grandma program. Whatever i say to grandma (whatever i type in), she should respond with:

HUH?! SPEAK UP, SONNY!

unless i shout it, (type in all capitals). If i shout, she can hear me and yells back:

NO, NOT SINCE 1938.

(see i have this part done, but.

I want to not be able to stop talking to her until i shout bye (type bye in upcase letters).

Thanks for your help.

I don't consider this any simpler, though it's most definitely shorter:



I'll do my best to explain what's going on in those four lines of ruby.

• We enter an until loop. This executes the enclosed code until the condition (line = gets.chomp) == "BYE" is met
• line = gets.chomp sets the variable line to input of the user's choosing (sans newline)
• If the user typed "BYE" in all upper case letters the loop is complete, so Grandma says goodbye and the program exits
• Otherwise the result of a [i]tertiary operator[i] ((line == line.upcase ? "NO, NOT SINCE 1983!" : "HUH?! SPEAK UP, SONNY!")) is printed to the screen and the test starts all over again. The syntax is probably a little scary looking to a novice, but it it's really just shorthand for a standard if/else construct:
  Code:

  if line == line.upcase
    puts "NO, NOT SINCE 1983!"
  else
    puts "HUH?! SPEAK UP, SONNY!"
  end

  
  The above code is trivial to break down (if the supplied line was a "SHOUT", say "NO, NOT SINCE 1983!", otherwise say "HUH?! SPEAK UP, SONNY") but I find it's a bit less elegant than the tertiary operator. That's just my subjective opinion though, take it for what it's worth.