From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2006-06-29T05:41:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Looping through 2 arrays


On Jun 28, 2006, at 4:34 PM, Dark Ambient wrote:

> I'm trying to loop through 2 arrays, and notice some odd behaviour,
> probably because the syntax is not correct
>
> unsorted.each do |x|
>    sorted.each do |y|
>          puts 'this is que_words ' + x  + '.'
>          puts 'this is s_words ' + y + '.'
>       end
>   end
>
> I added the 'puts' in as I'm trying to build a bigger block of code
> and trying to take it one step at a time with some checking in place.
> unsorted has elements, sorted is empty.
>
> When I run the above, nothing is output.  When I comment out the
> sorted loop, unsorted outputs it's elements.  Would having an empty
> array effect the output of unsorted or is this just plain wrong ?
>
> Stuart
>

If sorted is empty it, never enters the sorted.each block, which is  
where all the output is. Try this

unsorted.each do |x|
   puts 'this is que_words ' + x  + '.'
   sorted.each do |y|
     puts 'this is s_words ' + y + '.'
   end
end