From: SpringFlowers AutumnMoon <summercoolness@...>
Date: 2007-09-26T00:05:18+09:00
Subject: Re: array manipulation

Analogy Analogy wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I have a general newbie type question
> Say I have a 2D array that I obtained from an external program:
> 
> array = [["a", "b", "", "c", "5"], ["d", "e", "f", "9.0", "7", "g", "",
> "", ""], ["", "h", "5", "", ""]]
> 
> 
> Is there a way to remove just the last two empty strings ("") in the
> last element, so the array will look like this:
> 
> array = [["a", "b", "", "c", "5"], ["d", "e", "f", "9.0", "7", "g", "",
> "", ""], ["", "h", "5"]]

you can use array[2][3,2]  = nil to delete the last 2 elements
and use flatten to get a new array

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