From: Konrad Meyer <konrad@...>
Date: 2007-08-18T20:09:16+09:00
Subject: Re: How do you print the first 5 records in an array?

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On Saturday 18 August 2007 02:55:17 am Bob Sanders wrote:
> Let's say I have an array defined as:
>=20
> @people =3D ["Jim", "Jen", "Jess", "Jay", "Jack", "John", "Jeff", "Jed",
> "Jill"]
>=20
> How would I then print out the first 5 records of that array? (i.e. from
> Jim to Jack)
>=20
> Any ideas?

One idea comes to mind:

  @people.inject([]){|a,p|a<<p if a.length<5;a}.each{|p|puts p}

Anyone wanna throw in callcc too?
Cheers,
=2D-=20
Konrad Meyer <konrad@tylerc.org> http://konrad.sobertillnoon.com/

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