From: Kirk Lowery <kirk@...>
Date: 2001-06-19T02:09:36+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:16592] Re: Two (or more) dimensional arrays?

On 18 Jun 2001, at 15:06, Niklas Frykholm wrote:

> 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

Of course! That is what is so attractive about Ruby. Simple and elegant. 
It's going to take this old Perl Hacker Wannabe a while to adjust, but 
it's things like this which really encourages me to learn and use Ruby.

Thanks!

Kirk
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