Problem with Ruby string concatenation

Question

This works

irb(main):001:0> name = "Rohit " "Sharma"
=> "Rohit Sharma"

But this doesn't

irb(main):001:0> fname = "Rohit "
=> "Rohit "
irb(main):002:0> lname = "Sharma"
=> "Sharma"
irb(main):003:0> name = fname lname

It gives this error

NoMethodError: undefined method `fname' for main:Object
from (irb):3

Please provide some suggestions. Thanks in advance.

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Answer 1

The error is related to the fact that fname would have to be a function for this to work. Instead, try

name = fname + lname

or even

name = "#{fname}#{lname}"

but where you had

name = "Rohit " "Sharma"

it is a special case, since Ruby will join the two strings automatically.