From: Shawn Anderson <shawn42@...>
Date: 2008-04-09T01:59:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Remove first and last items from array

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a.shift
a.pop

This reads a little better to me.
You don't want to collect the items at all right?

/Shawn

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Mark Dodwell <seo@mkdynamic.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I need to remove the first and last items in an array (which may have 1,
> 2 or more items so the resulting array after removal may be empty). I
> came up with this:
>
> a = [1,2,3,4,5]
> 2.times { a.pop; a.reverse! }
>
> It works well, but do you think that there is a slightly less obscure
> way!?
>
> Cheers,
>
> ~ Mark
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
>

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