From: Daniel Finnie <danfinnie@...>
Date: 2006-12-21T05:24:08+09:00
Subject: Re: range question

base = "name 00"
ary = []
20.times{ary << base.succ!.dup}

or:

base = "name "
ary = []
1.upto(20) {|x| ary << base + x.to_s}

chen li wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I want to create an array as following:
> a4=['name 1','name 2'...'name 20'].
> 
> It looks like a range for me. But I can't find a
> method in class Range to create this array. Here is my
> script I am not sure if this the Ruby way to do this.
> Any inputs?
> 
> Li
> 
> #
>  str='name 1'  
>   a4=[]
>  1.upto(20) do|i|
>  a4 <<(str.split()[0]+" #{i}")       
>  end
> 
> p a4
> #output
> ["name 1", "name 2", "name 3", "name 4", "name 5",
> "name 6", "name 7", "name 8", "name 9", "name 10",
> "name 11", "name 12", "name 13", "name 14", "name 15",
> "name 16", "name 17", "name 18", "name 19", "name 20"]
>> Exit code: 0
> 
> 
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