From: Jeremy Woertink <jeremywoertink@...>
Date: 2007-11-08T05:15:32+09:00
Subject: Re: how to delete array

Surjit Nameirakpam wrote:
> Problem
> 
> consider an array
> 
> a = [1,4,6,7,9,8]
> 
> I want to delete the array value w.r.t index
> 
> e.g i want to delte 0,4,6 element in one go
> 
> I can use the command
> a.delete_at(0)
> a.delete_at(4)
> a.delete_at(6)
> 
> But the problem is that i dont know how much element will be populated
> in my array every time the program runs and the index value will also
> change.
> 
> So i need to dynamically pass the index value and this should delete the
> values pertaining to the index

you could try something like...

a.each_with_index do |item, index|
  a.delete_at(index) if item.eql?(something)
end


~Jeremy
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