From: Bob Showalter <showaltb@...>
Date: 2006-12-21T05:36:00+09:00
Subject: Re: range question

On 12/20/06, chen li <chen_li3@yahoo.com> 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?

Range has a to_a method, but it won't work for 'Name 1'..'Name 20' (it
does for 'Name 01'..'Name 20' as pointed out).

I would use

   arr = (1..20).collect{|i| "name #{i}"}