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Ruby program to read a floating-point number from the user

Last Updated : December 15, 2025

Problem Solution

In this program, we will read a floating-point number from the user using gets.chomp.to_f and print the input number.

Program/Source Code

The source code to read a floating-point number from the user is given below. The given program is compiled and executed successfully.

# Ruby program to read a floating-point number 
# from the user

num=0.0;

print "Enter floating point number: ";
num = gets.chomp.to_f;  

print "Number is: ",num;

Output

Enter floating point number: 2.34
Number is: 2.34

Explanation

In the above program, we created a variable num initialized with 0.0. Then we read a floating-point number from the user using gets.chomp.to_f and printed the input number.

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