From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2005-12-05T23:27:33+09:00
Subject: Re: increasing counter whithin loop?

Patrick Gundlach wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> a very basic question...
> 
> I'd like to output the sequence "a b d e", by testing if the current
> element is == "b" then skip the next element and continue the loop.
> The obvious solution doesn't look rubyish to me, how could I use the
> first or second attempt to get the desired solution?
> 
> Patrick
> --------------------------------------------------
> a=%w( a b c d e )

>> a=%w( a b c d e )
=> ["a", "b", "c", "d", "e"]
>> a.each do |elt|
?>   next if elt=="b"
>>   puts elt
>> end
a
c
d
e
=> ["a", "b", "c", "d", "e"]
>>

Kind regards

    robert