Ruby/C2/Logical-and-other-Operators/English
Title of script: Logical & Other Operators
Author:Spoken Tutorial Team, IIT Bombay
Video: Shalini Nair, SNDT, Summer Intern 2013
Keywords:logical operator, range operator, video tutorial
Visual Cue | Narration |
Slide 1 | Welcome to this spoken tutorial on Logical & Other Operators |
Slide 2
Learning Objectives |
In this tutorial, we will learn
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Slide 3
System Requirement |
Here we are using
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Slide 4
Pre-requisites |
To follow this tutorial you must know how to use Terminal and Text editor in Linux.
You must also be familiar with irb If not, for relevant tutorials, please visit our website |
Slide 5
Logical Operators |
Logical Operators are also known as Boolean Operators
because they evaluate parts of an expression and return a true or false value. Logical Operators are,
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Slide 6
Logical operators Eg : <Expresion1> &&<Expression2> <Expresion1> and<Expression2> |
Here are examples of && and and operators |
Highlight “&&” and “and” | && and and evaluate to true only if both the expressions are true. |
Highlight<Expression2> and then highlight <Expression1> | Second expression is evaluated only if the first is true. |
Highlight “&&” | Difference in the two forms is, precedence
Symbolic and (&&) has higher precedence. |
Let's us see some examples now.
We will use irb for this. | |
Press Ctrl+Alt+t to switch to the terminal | Open the terminal by pressing Ctrl, Alt and T keys simultaneously. |
Type
irb and press Enter |
Type irb and press Enter to launch interactive Ruby |
Type
3>2 && 4<5 Press Enter |
Type
3 greater than 2 space ampersand ampersand space 4 less than 5 Press Enter |
Highlight true | We get the output as true. |
Highlight 3>2
Highlight 4<5 |
Here, expression1 that is 3>2 is true.
Expression 2 that is 4<5 is also true. Since both the expressions are true, we get output as true. |
Press the up Arrow key | Now press Up Arrow key to get the previous command. |
Replace && with and
press Enter |
In expression 1 replace the double ampersand symbol with the word and.
Press Enter |
We get the same result. | |
Replace
3<2 and 4<5 press Enter |
In expression 1 replace greater than sign with less than
Press Enter |
Highlight false | We get the output as false. |
Highlight 3<2 | This is because 3<2 is false. |
Point to 3<2 and then to 4<5 | Since the first expression is false, the second expression will not be evaluated. |
Highlight false | So, we get output as false. |
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|| and or Eg : <Expresion1> || <Expression2> <Expresion1> or <Expression2> |
Here are examples of || and or operators |
Highlight || and or | || and or evaluate to true, if either expression is true.
Second expression is evaluated only if first is false. |
Highlight || | Difference in the two forms is precedence.
Symbolic or ("||") has higher precedence. |
Now, let's try some examples. | |
Type
10>6 || 12 <7 |
10 greater than 6 space double pipe space 12 less than 7
Press Enter. |
Highlight true | We get output as true. |
Highlight 10<6 | Here expression 1 that is 10<6 is true.
Since the first expression is true , second expression will not be evaluated. So, we get the output as true. |
Press the up Arrow key | Now press the Up Arrow key to get the previous command. |
Replace
10<6 or 12<7 press Enter |
In expression 1 replace greater than sign with less than.
And replace pipe symbol with word or. Press Enter. |
Highlight 10<6
Highlight 12<7 |
Here, expression1 that is 10<6 is false.
Expression 2 that is 12<7 is also false.
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Slide 8
! and not Eg: !<Expression> not<Expression> |
Here are examples of ! and not |
Highlight ! and not | not and ! return the opposite value of the expression
If the expression is true, ! operator will return a false value. It will return true if the expression is false. |
Highlight ! | Difference in the two forms is precedence.
Symbolic not (!) has higher precedence. |
Let's try out the not operator. | |
Type
10==10 press Enter |
First type
10 double equal to 10 Press Enter. |
Highlight true | We get the output as true. |
To invert the result of above expression,
let's add the not operator before the expression. | |
Type
!(10==10) press Enter |
Type
Exclamation mark within brackets 10 double equal to 10 Press Enter. |
Highlight false | We get the output as false. |
Press ctrl +l | Press Ctrl+l simultaneously to clear the irb console. |
<Pause>
Next, let us learn about parallel assignment. | |
Slide 9 | Multiple variables can be initialized with a single line of Ruby code, through parallel assignment. |
Let's switch to the terminal. | |
Let's declare three variables a, b, c using parallel assignment. | |
Type
a,b,c =10,20,30 |
Type
a comma b comma c equal to 10 comma 20 comma 30 and press Enter. |
Highlight a,b,c =10,20,30
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Here,
10 will be assigned to variable a 20 will be assigned to variable b 30 will be assigned to variable c |
Highlight 10,20,30 | The right hand side acts as an array. |
Highlight a,b,c=10,20,30 | If we list multiple variables on the left hand side,
then the array is unpacked
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We will learn about arrays in detail in the upcoming tutorials.
For now, let's check whether the assignment is done properly. | |
Type a << press Enter | Type a and press Enter. |
Highlight 10 | Value 10 stored in variable a is displayed. |
Type b<< press Enter | Type b and press Enter. |
Highlight 20 | We get 20 |
Type c << press Enter | Type c and press Enter. |
Highlight 30 | 30 is displayed. |
Parallel assignment is also useful for swapping the values stored in two variables. | |
Let us swap the values of variables a and b. | |
Type puts “a=#{a}”,”b=#{b}”
press Enter |
Type
puts space within double quotes a equal to hash within curly brackets a comma within double quotes b equal to hash within curly brackets b Press Enter. |
Highlight a=10
b=20 |
We get the output as
a=10 b=20 |
Now let's swap a and b. | |
Type
a,b=b,a |
To do so type
a comma b equal to b comma a Press Enter. |
Press Up Arrow key twice | Press Up Arrow key twice to get the puts command and press Enter. |
Highlight a=20
b=10 |
We get the output as
a=20 b=10 |
Slide Range | We will now learn about range in Ruby.
The values in a range can be numbers, characters, strings or objects. Ranges are used to express a sequence. |
Slide Sequence Range | Sequence range is used to create a range of successive values.
It consists of an start value, range of values and an end value. (..) two dot operator creates an inclusive range. (...) three dot operator creates an exclusive range. |
Slide Range Interval | Ranges are used to identify whether a value falls within a particular range, too.
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Let us try out some examples on ranges.
Let's switch to terminal. | |
Type (1..10).to_a | Type
Within brackets 1 two dots 10 then dot to underscore a |
Highlight .. | Two dot operator creates inclusive range. |
Highlight 1 and 10 | Inclusive operator includes both begin and end values in a range.
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Highlight to_a | Here to_a method is used to convert a range to a list.
Press Enter. |
Highlight [1 ,2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10] | Here you can see the values 1 and 10 are included in the range. |
Now we will see an exclusive range operator. | |
Type (1...10).to_a | Type
Within brackets 1 three dots 10 then dot to underscore a |
Highlight (1...10).to_a | Three dot operator creates an exclusive range.
Exclusive range operator excludes the end value from the sequence. Press Enter. |
Highlight [1 ,2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] | Here end value 10 is not included in the range. |
Now let's check whether 5 lies in the range of 1 to 10. | |
Type
(1..10)===5 |
Type
Within brackets 1 two dots 10 three times equal to and then 5 Press Enter. |
Highlight === | Equality operator is used to check whether a value lies in the range. |
Highlight true | We get the output as true since 5 lies in the range 1 to 10. |
<<Pause>>
This brings us to the end of this Spoken Tutorial. | |
Slide 11
Summary |
In this tutorial we have learnt
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Slide 13
Assignment |
As an assignment
using irb |
Slide 14
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Slide 16
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Remain on the previous Slide | This script has been contributed by the Spoken Tutorial Team, IIT Bombay.
And this is Shalini Nair from SNDT. Thank you. |