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Osman Ercanli
3,579 Pointshelp with forloop syntax error
for item in ["Programming", "is", "fun"] puts "Item is #{item}." end
--for the code above I am getting the below error, I can't seem to find what to correct, thank you in advance for any help--
treehouse:~/workspace$ ruby forloop.rb
forloop.rb:1: syntax error, unexpected tSTRING_BEG, expecting keyword_do or '{' or '('
for item in ["Programming", "is", "fun"]
^
forloop.rb:1: syntax error, unexpected ',', expecting end-of-input
for item in ["Programming", "is", "fun"]
2 Answers
Samuel Ferree
31,722 PointsYou're missing the do keyword, Try this
for item in ["Programming", "is", "fun"] do
puts item
end
Osman Ercanli
3,579 Pointsthank you so much Samuel
K .
2,357 PointsK .
2,357 PointsJason doesnt use the do keyword in the video though..