From: Stefan Rusterholz <apeiros@...>
Date: 2007-10-17T21:00:07+09:00
Subject: Re: big array, problems with deleting all empty items

Simon Schuster wrote:
> it seems that I have to run it a couple different times for it to
> work.. array.length = 16576, if that could be a potential problem. if
> it is, how do I work around it?
> 
> 077:0> array = File.read("/text.txt").to_a.each { |x| x.chomp! }
> 080:0> array.each_with_index { |x,y|
>     array.delete_at(y) if x.empty? == true
> }
> 
> still leaves me with plenty of empty array items
> 080:0> array[-3]
> ""

array = File.read(path).split(/\r?\n/)
array.delete!("")

Regards
Stefan
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