From: Chunyun Zhao <chunyun.zhao@...>
Date: 2007-01-17T03:52:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Array Default Values

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If you know the size of the array, you could do:

a=Array.new(10, " ")

Or you could map the array afterwards:

a.map!{|e|e?' ':e}

On 1/16/07, Drew Olson <olsonas@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'd like to have my array behave like this: If I add an item to a[5],
> a[0..5] will be equal to " " rather than nil. I tried to following:
>
> irb(main):001:0> a=[" "]
> => [" "]
> irb(main):002:0> a[5] = "test"
> => "test"
> irb(main):003:0> a.inspect
> => "[\" \", nil, nil, nil, nil, \"test\"]"
>
> Is there any way to have those nils default to " "?
>
> Thanks,
> Drew
>
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>
>

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