From: Jenny Purcell <dontspamme@...>
Date: 2007-07-22T14:15:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Method to return elements of an array in numeric 'rank'?

On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 13:52:15 +0900, "Harry Kakueki"
<list.push@gmail.com> wrote:

>On 7/22/07, Jenny Purcell <dontspamme@spam.com> wrote:
>>
>> I realize it would be easier for people in the fgroup to follow if I
>> was programming with objects. However, I just don't understand OO
>> programming, my skills (such as they are) are procedural.
>>
>> Ruby was pointed out to me as a language that would allow me to write
>> procedural programs and so far it is working out very nicely in that
>> regard.
>>
>
>Would something like this work?
>
>arr = [[1,7],[3,2],[4,9],[2,3]] # [[horse,score],[horse,score] etc.]
>arr.sort! {|x,y| y[1] <=> x[1]}
>p arr

It looks like you're suggesting a two dimensional array, is that
correct? I think that would also work, although I'm not quite good
enough with Ruby syntax (or arrays) to follow it 100%.

Jenny