From: Daniel Martin <martin@...>
Date: 2006-08-16T21:09:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Nooby question : multidimensional arrays.

"marinho.tobolla@syncity.de" <marinho.tobolla@syncity.de> writes:

> Well am I right, that in Ruby there are only one dimensional arrays,
> and that i have to add an array into an array to get
> multidimensional arrays, or is there a simpler more ruby like way to
> create them ?

Well, there's also the block that Array.new takes to give its initial
value:

a = Array.new(8) {Array.new(8) {0}}

This creates an 8 by 8 two-dimensional array initialized with all 0.

(Technically, you don't need that second block and could do the inner
bit as Array.new(8,0))