From: Dick Davies <rasputnik@...>
Date: 2008-01-30T07:29:43+09:00
Subject: Re: For Loop question

question_array.each { |element|
  next if element.nil
  element.do_something
}

will call do_something() on every element in the array that isn't nil.

If you just want to do something with the first non-nil element, you could do

non_nil  = element.find { |e| !e.nil? }
non_nil.do_something

On Jan 29, 2008 10:11 PM, Mark Mr <pimea.mark@gmail.com> wrote:
> . Here's what i want to do in C++, with some ruby mixed in
>
> for (i = 0; @question_array[i].nil?; i++)
>   {
>   code here....
>   }
>
> it's supposed to run until it finds an element of the array that isnt
> blank and then stop. anyone know how to make a loop like this in ruby?
> thanks :)

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