Average word length problem.

Question

Hi, myself varun (clearly written on id but i like an intro).

So, i am stuck in the average word length code coach, for 2 days.

I tried every relevant way of trying but didnt Succeeded. (I am using ruby)

The only problem is every time I round the numbers to floor() they last 4 cases are wrong and when i use ceil() the 1st case is wrong.

So my code is below :-

strings = gets.chomp.to_s
letter = strings.split("")
letter.delete(" ")
word = strings.split(" ")
letters = letter.size().to_f
words = word.size().to_f
average = (letters / words)
num1 = average.round(1)
num2 = average.to_i
log = num1 - num2
x = 0.5
if log <= 0.5
print average.ceil()
else
print average.floor()
end

I used round also but wasnt helpful.

Please give me some ideas as answers as i am stuck and please try providing answers in Ruby.

For further Inquiries you can DM me i would like to have a solution. ☺

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Evan Flair , word.delete "?" does only delete "?". Right? The task description from this code coach mentions, that all punctuation has to be removed, which means some more special characters.

Answer 2

Evan Flair Thank you, Thank you and Thank you very much.

But i have some queries. 😅
Can you provide the logical flow please. As some of the statements are kind of different to me.

And yeah a more particular question is this, that you removed "? ", how do you know that whether it would be in the string input or not?.
well, when I removed "? " my test cases where also correct BUT i thought that i dont know what they would answer so i let it be the old answer. (which caused all this chaos)

Thanks again cause it helped .☺

Answer 3

Lothar Yeah, you are right. 🤔

Answer 4

So, in the second test case there were 3 dots "... ", should they also needed to be removed. 🤔?