From: Niklas Frykholm <niklas@...>
Date: 2001-06-18T15:06:18+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:16587] Re: Two (or more) dimensional arrays?

On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 11:03:26AM +0900, Kirk Lowery wrote:
> After reading my way through various documentation, I didn't find any 
> explanation of how to create arrays of more than one dimension. Is that 
> because ruby has a different idiom for it?

A ruby Array can hold any kind of object. To make a multidimensional
array, create an array that holds Array objects.

		irb(main):001:0> a = [[1,2,3],[4,5,6]]
		[[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6]]
		irb(main):002:0> a[0][2]
		3

// Niklas