From: Stefano Crocco <stefano.crocco@...>
Date: 2008-06-16T17:44:45+09:00
Subject: Re: array to string conversion

On Monday 16 June 2008, Clement Ow wrote:

> Hi botp,
>
> Assuming I have my hash:
>
> ex = {}
> ex[0] = [".xls", ".ini", "20080326"]
> ex[1] = ["RVG", ".xls", ".rb"]
>
> The result i would want:
> str1 = [".xls", ".ini", ".xls", ".rb"]
> str2 = ["20080326", "RVG"]
>
> Is there any way i can do this?
> Thanks.
>
> Regards,
> Clement

Try looking at Enumerable#partition. A possible way to do this is:

res = ex.values.flatten.partition{|v| v[0..0] == '.'}
p res
=> [[".xls", ".ini", ".xls", ".rb"], ["20080326", "RVG"]]

Stefano