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Ruby program to pass a string to the user-defined function
Last Updated : December 15, 2025
Problem Solution
In this program, we will create a user-defined function with a string argument and print it.
Program/Source Code
The source code to pass a string to the user-defined function is given below. The given program is compiled and executed successfully.
# Ruby program to pass a string to
# the user-defined function
def passString(str)
print "String is: ",str;
end
print "Enter string: ";
str = gets.chomp;
passString(str);
Output
Enter string: Hello World
String is: Hello World
Explanation
In the above program, we created a function passString() with a string argument to print the specified string. Here, we read a string from the user and passed it to the passString() function.
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