From: Ross Bamford <rossrt@...>
Date: 2006-11-27T02:28:05+09:00
Subject: Re: find index of first non zeo value in array

On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 01:00 +0900, James Edward Gray II wrote:

> I believe there has been talk in the past of having index() take a  
> block for matching.  That would solve this problem ideally.  I can  
> submit an RCR if people think it's worth it, but I'm pretty sure Matz  
> said it was OK last time it came up...  (Correct me if I am wrong!)

IIRC Matz accepted it straight into 1.9. It's implemented there now:

$ ruby9 -ve 'p [0,0,0,15,0].index { |e| e > 0 }'
ruby 1.9.0 (2006-11-26 patchlevel 0) [i686-linux]
3

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Ross Bamford - rosco@roscopeco.REMOVE.co.uk