From: Jano Svitok <jan.svitok@...>
Date: 2008-04-03T05:20:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Real Quick Question...

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 10:13 PM, Jeff Miller <loadeddesigns@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>   Let's say I have an array like this:
>
>  @name_array = ["john", "t.", "smith"]
>
>  how can I get the first and LAST entries? IE:, I don't want the middle
>  one or any in between. I know I can get the first entry by
>  @name_array[0], but this will be part of a function in which some arrays
>  will have 2 entries, others 3 or even more, and I just want the last
>  entry. How can I do this?

quite surprisingly: @name_array.first and @name_array.last :)