From: Park Heesob <phasis68@...>
Date: 2006-11-27T00:52:22+09:00
Subject: Re: find index of first non zeo value in array


Hi,

>From: Josselin <josselin@wanadoo.fr>
>Reply-To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
>To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org (ruby-talk ML)
>Subject: find index of first non zeo value in array
>Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 23:00:10 +0900
>
>with :
>array = [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 21, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 
>0, 0, 0, 0]
>
>I wrote :
>array.index(array.detect {|x| x > 0})    => 15
>
>is there a better and simpler way to do it ?
>thanks
>
>joss
>
>
How about this:

array.index((array-[0])[0])

Regards,

Park Heesob

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