From: Harry Kakueki <list.push@...>
Date: 2007-06-12T20:11:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Generate a grid of cells, and give characteristics

On 6/12/07, Joop Van den tillaart <tillaart36@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi you all I am new to this forum and also quite new to ruby...I have
> some PHP knowledge but I'm definitely no pro in programming...
>
> Now I have a project at school...I will try to explain it as short as
> possible...
>
> I need to generate a grid, let's say of 196 cells (grid of 14x14), I'm
> now generating it with an array:
>
> grid = [1, 2, ..., 195, 196]
>
> 1. first of all is there a way to somehow automatically generate an
> array of following numbers or other characters because when I later on
> plan to change the gridsize it would be nice if this can be filled
> automatically...
>

Hi,

If you want to use one array like in your example, you can fill it
using a range.

http://www.rubycentral.com/book/tut_stdtypes.html#S3

grid = (1..196).to_a
p grid

Is that what you want to do?

But you may want to use a 2D array.

Harry


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