From: Dark Ambient <sambient@...>
Date: 2006-06-29T05:45:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Looping through 2 arrays

Okay ..thanks! makes sense.
Apologies also for leaving the que_words and s_words in the puts statement.
I meant to change them out since unsorted and sorted are easier to understand.

Stuart

On 6/28/06, Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
>
>