From: Peter Szinek <peter@...>
Date: 2006-10-20T17:28:08+09:00
Subject: Re: filling an array excepted first and last position...

Josselin wrote:
> ldom =  30  # variable (last day of a month...)
> 
> # array init to 0
>  @obk = []
>  1.step(ldom, 1) do |i|
>    @obk[i] = 0
>  end

You could do also
@obk = Array.new(ldom) { 0 }
> 
> I am filling an array as follows  (part of a larger filling scheme) :
> ----
> #fiiling the array upon another array content
> # but I'd like to AVOID filling the first and last position in this
> loop....
>    obdays.each do |bd|
>        @obk[bd] = 1
>    end

hmm... there are maybe better ways for this, but I would try:

(1..@obd.size-2).each {|i| puts @obk[i] }

HTH,
Peter
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