From: "Mehr, Assaph (Assaph)" <assaph@...>
Date: 2004-09-21T10:54:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Filling a 2D array

>>Gah, posted too soon!
>>
>># initialize an array of arrays:
>>@tileArray = Array.new(@height) { Array.new }
>># Initizlize arrays of tiles:
>>@height.times { @tileArray.push Array.new(@width) {Tile.new} }

>Ah, that makes sense. 

I should REALLY get coffee before I post anything more today!

If you use my example above you'll end up with @tileArray being an Array
with the first @height elements being empty Arrays and the second
@height arrays being the tile arrays. The first initialization should
just be
  @tileArray = []
So you could use the push method in the block. However, it's probably
cleaner (and a bit more efficient) to use:
  @tileArray = Array.new(@width) { Array.new(@height) {Tile.new} }

Thus the first parameter is the number of elements in the array and the
second is a block to call for each cell, for both rows and columns.

I'll go get coffee now.