From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2008-08-18T07:25:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Creating an array with incrementing values up to a certain number

Hi --

On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, Brian Ross wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Another basic question, thanks for the help on the last one. I wanted to
> come up with the above described program and came up with this:
>
> # array.rb start
>
> a = [1]
> x = 0
>  while x < 99
>    a[(x+1)] = (a[x] + 1)
>    x = x + 1
>  end
> p a
>
> # array.rb end
>
> This worked fine, but is there a more elegant way of doing this? It seems a
> bit clumsy.

In addition to the other answers:

   a = [*1..99]


David

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