Missing kEND for if statement, but not for a case statement?

Ruby
1

I am having some trouble figuring out why I keep getting an unexpected
kENSURE expecting kEND error.

I have to sets of code and the first set uses a case statement with the
same
amount of end keywords. This set runs fine. The second set uses an if
statement and will not pass a syntax check. Any advice is greatly
appreciated. I really need to figure out how to go with the if
statement
because the === operator that case statements use do not work the way I
need
them to when a regex object is placed in the right side of the
expression.
This is a rough example of my syntax. The actual code has different
values
but the structure is the same. I’ve used VIM with matchit and can not
find
any errors.

1st set;

begin
loopbreak = false
while loopbreak != true
str = gets
case(str)
when ‘help’, ‘HELP’
puts help
when ‘quit’, ‘QUIT’
loopbreak = true
when ‘options’, ‘OPTIONS’
puts options
else
puts “{#str} is not a valid command”
end
end

ensure
somehousecleaning()
end

2nd set

begin
loopbreak = false
while loopbreak != true
str = gets
if str =~ /help|HELP/
puts help
else if str =~ /quit|QUIT/
loopbreak = true
else if str =~ /options|OPTIONS/
puts options
else
puts “{#str} is not a valid command”
end
end

ensure
somehousecleaning()
end

2

On 6/27/07, Nathan T.-Hoover [email protected] wrote:

    else
        puts "{#str} is not a valid command"
    end
end

ensure
somehousecleaning()
end

The “else if” construct is elsif in ruby. doing else if will start an
actual new if statement that needs to be ended.

3

That is excellent. Thank you. I thought it was elseif but when I used
that
in my text editor that has support for ruby it did not colorize it as a
keyword, however when I used else if it did so I was mislead into
believing
I had the correct syntax.