From: Ezra Zygmuntowicz <ezmobius@...>
Date: 2005-12-22T06:13:11+09:00
Subject: Re: move to front of array


On Dec 21, 2005, at 12:08 PM, Payton Swick wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have an array of Strings, and I'd like to find one of the items  
> by Regexp, then move that item to the front of the array, eg:
>
> array = %w(a B c d Cool e f G)
> array.unshift(array.slice!(array.index(array.find { |i| i =~ /cool/ 
> i }))) if array.find { |i| i =~ /cool/i }
>
> Better/cleaner/shorter ways to do it?
>
> -Payton
>

  array.unshift(array.delete_at(array.index("Cool")))

# => ["Cool", "a", "B", "c", "d", "e", "f", "G"]

-Ezra