From: Tamreen Khan <tamreenkhan@...>
Date: 2007-01-17T03:56:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Array Default Values

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On 1/16/07, David Goodlad <dgoodlad@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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 " "?
>
> You can also do:


a=[" "]
x=5
(x-1).times do |x|
  a[x]=" "
end

It's a bit more code, but also more flexible, filling up everything up to
and not including 5.

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