ex7.rb

# print out a few lines
puts "Mary had a little lamb."
puts "Its fleece was white as %s." % 'snow' # format sequence: string variable
puts "And everywhere that Mary went." 
puts "." * 10 # what'd that do? (repeat the "." 10 times

# create 12 single character variables
end1 = "C"
end2 = "h"
end3 = "e"
end4 = "e"
end5 = "s"
end6 = "e"
end7 = "B"
end8 = "u"
end9 = "r"
end10 = "g"
end11 = "e"
end12 = "r"

# notice how we are using print instead of puts here. Change it to puts
# and see what happens.

#print the 12 characters one after the other; print does not add EOL and NL characters
print end1 + end2 + end3 + end4 + end5 + end6 
print end7 + end8 + end9 + end10 + end11 + end12

# this just is polite use of the terminal, try removing it
# add an extra blank line so that the last line isn't 
puts