From: Farrel Lifson <farrel.lifson@...>
Date: 2008-02-10T07:09:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Identifying

On 10/02/2008, Adam Akhtar <adamtemporary@gmail.com> wrote:
> If you have an array which contains a mixture of say intergers and
> nested arrays, how can you determine whether an element is an array or
> not
>
> ie in psedo code
>
> array.each do |x|
>    if x == Array
>      do something
> end
>
> whats the corect way to write the if statement?

Use a case statement:

  array.each do |x|
    case x
      when Array: do something
      when Integer: do something
    end
  end

Farrel