Need help with a Ruby assignment

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November 6th, 2011, 10:07 AM

abit2theright

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Need help with a Ruby assignment

Here is the assignment directions:

In this program you need to create a letter counter. A user is first asked to enter a string. After that, the user is asked to enter a character. The program should count and display the number of times that the specified character appears in the string.

Unfortunately, I do not know where to start if someone could give me a hand?

I would appreciate any help given!

-Max

November 17th, 2011, 04:51 PM

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I shouldn't be doing your homework for you, but I'm bored and thinking about ruby.

Code:

def run
    puts 'Enter a string to search'
    text = gets.chomp!
    puts 'Enter a character to search for'
    target = gets.chomp!
    count = text.scan(/#{target}/).count
    puts "Found #{count} occurrences of the character #{target}"
end
run

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