From: FireAphis <FireAphis@...>
Date: 2007-10-03T16:50:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Searching through a sorted array

On Oct 3, 9:30 am, Peter Szinek <pe...@rubyrailways.com> wrote:
> FireAphis wrote:
> > Hello,
>
> > I have a very big array of objects sorted by one of its numeric data
> > members. During the flow of my application I need occasionally to get
> > all the elements in a specific range.
>
> Then why not
>
> my_array[start..end] ?
>
> Cheers,
> Peter
> __http://www.rubyrailways.comhttp://scrubyt.org

Sorry if my explanation has been misleading. The array isn't
necessarily comprised of continuous or consecutive numbers. Moreover
they don't necessarily start from zero. For example:

my_array = [-100, -99, -2, 0, 3, 125, 1742, 1234568763]

now I want to get all the elements bigger than 1 and smaller than
1000. AFAIK my_array[1..1000] doesn't help in this case.