From: Xavier Noria <fxn@...>
Date: 2006-11-07T22:24:36+09:00
Subject: Re: dividing an array

On Nov 7, 2006, at 2:14 PM, Brad Tilley wrote:

> Say I have an array that contains 144 strings. I want to divide the  
> array into
> 12 sub-arrays each containing 12 strings. What is the Ruby Way of  
> doing this?
> I've looked at slice array[0..11] etc, but that seems a bit clunky.

If those are the 12 natural consecutive sub-arrays:

   require 'enumerator'

   array.each_slice(12) do |x|
     # ...
   end

-- fxn