From: "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>
Date: 2005-07-28T23:51:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Combination of two arrays

On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, why the lucky stiff wrote:

> Ara.T.Howard wrote:
>
>>> 
>>>  harp:~ > cat a.rb
>>>  foo = [ "a", "b", "c", 'n' ]
>>>  bar = [  1 ,  2 ,  3 , 'm' ]
>>> 
>>>  p foo.zip(bar)
>>> 
>>>  harp:~ > ruby a.rb
>>>  [["a", 1], ["b", 2], ["c", 3], ["n", "m"]]
>> 
> I don't want Ara to fail!
>
>>> (foo * bar.length).sort.zip(bar * bar.length)
> => [["a", 1], ["a", 2], ["a", 3], ["a", "m"], ["b", 1], ["b", 2], ["b", 3], 
> ["b", "m"], ["c", 1], ["c", 2], ["c", 3], ["c", "m"], ["n", 1], ["n", 2], 
> ["n", 3], ["n", "m"]]
>
> _why

you win _why!  nice.

-a
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