From: Xavier Noria <fxn@...>
Date: 2007-08-18T19:43:22+09:00
Subject: Re: How do you print the first 5 records in an array?

On Aug 18, 2007, at 11:55 AM, Bob Sanders wrote:

> @people = ["Jim", "Jen", "Jess", "Jay", "Jack", "John", "Jeff", "Jed",
> "Jill"]
>
> How would I then print out the first 5 records of that array? (i.e.  
> from
> Jim to Jack)

You can explicitly say "Take n items starting from index i" with the  
syntax

   array[i, n]

In your example that'd give

   puts @people[0, 5]

-- fxn