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I am currently on Lesson 9 in "Learn Ruby the hard way".

I have typed the the line number 6 exactly as the way its being instructed but still I am getting error while executing.

It says:

Syntax error, unexpected tCONSTANT, expecting $end

puts " Here ^ are the days : ", days
Andrew Grimm
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  • This can happen in IRB (interactive ruby) even if I've hit Ctrl-C several times. I find I just exit IRB if I hit this in IRB. – Warren P Oct 08 '16 at 17:44

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You have forgotten to close a string on a previous line. Here's the problem reproduced:

paul@paulbookpro ~ ⸩ ruby     
days = "abc
puts "Here are the days"
-:2: syntax error, unexpected tCONSTANT, expecting $end
puts "Here are the days"
          ^

It's treating the double-quote before the word "Here" as the closing quote of the string on the previous line, and then wondering why you're using a constant called Here (token beginning with upper case letter).

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The error message means that the ruby parser encountered a constant (i.e. an identifier starting with a capital letter) where it did not expect one (specifically the parser expected the file to end at that point).

Since the code you've shown does not even contain a constant, the problem is likely caused by another part of your code.

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