From: Harry <list.push@...>
Date: 2007-04-30T07:14:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Array.which_long? ( I coded an extension for Array )

On 4/29/07, Billy Hsu <ruby.maillist@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for your reply, I learned more on this thread :P
> But I have a question:
> If I have an array contain:
>   ary = [1, 12, 234, "456"]
> there has two elements which size is 3, but the longest method just returned
> one of them.
> I can't solve it :(
>

Is this what you are looking for?
Do you want all longest elements?

big = [1, 12, 234,45,978, "456"].max {|x,y| x.to_s.size <=> y.to_s.size}
p [1, 12, 234,45,978, "456"].select {|r| r.to_s.size == big.to_s.size}

Harry

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