From: prasad <gdprasad@...>
Date: 2008-12-01T21:33:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Control Structures

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See if this satisfies you:

while (arr = Array.new(4){rand 4}) != [0,1,2,4]
  p arr
end
p arr

best wishes,
Prasad


On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Trent Jones <1337indi@gmail.com> wrote:

> G'day all, I'm new to Ruby, been studying Software Engineering at
> university and they have been teaching in Java.
>
> As such, I'm trying to learn as few of the basics by going through and
> comverting smoe of the programs I made into Ruby. At the moment, I'm
> struggling a bit with the control structures, if-then-else is fine,
> switch/case is fine. I'm just a little confused about the for and
> while/dowhile loops.
>
> I'm trying to make a "infinite monkeys" simulation, i.e. initiate an
> array of 'x' length and then fill it with random numbers, then check to
> see if those numbers are in order, if not, repeat the process. More or
> less anyway.
>
> At the moment I'm using this loop to fill the array:
>  for num in (0..Integer(a))
>    monkey[num]=Integer(rand*5+1)
>  end
> variable 'a' is input by the user to determine how big a sequence, i.e.
> 5 numbers in a row.
>
> Is this the easiest way of doing things?
> And then I could use a similar loop to go through and check to see if
> each number is in order, but again, is there a simpler way to check?
>
> Thanks in advance.
> TJ
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
>

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