From: tho_mica_l <micathom@...>
Date: 2008-01-30T23:00:00+09:00
Subject: Re: For Loop question

> it's supposed to run until it finds an element of the array that isnt
> blank and then stop.

And then do what? Do you need the index? In this case you can use the
index method.

a = [1,2,nil,3]

a.index(nil)
# => 2

or do you want the elements before that? Or ...

Anyway, another solution close in resemblance to yours could be:

for e in a
  break if e.nil?
  do_something e
end

HTH,
Thomas.