From: Sean Murphy <smurf_bp@...>
Date: 2008-01-14T17:14:07+09:00
Subject: Two dimention arrays and accessing syslog.

All,

A newby question, only been using Ruby for about 2 days.

Is there a better way of creating a two dimention array, than the code used 
below

def create_world x, y
  row = Array.new

  y.times {
   |j|
   col = Array.new
   x.times {
    |i|

      map_type = rand(2)
      col[i] = map_type
    }
    row[j] = col
  }

  return row
end

world = create_world(gets.to_i, gets.to_i)

Also, what is the best method of accessing the syslog file within Linux?  I 
could open the file for reading, but I want to make sure there isn't a 
better method first.

Regards
Sean Murphy
Skype: smurf20005

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