From: Joshua Ball <chezball@...>
Date: 2008-12-18T13:40:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Array problem

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I think this should do it:

array.delete_if { |elem| not elem =~ /.bmp/i }
It worked for the following test:
array = [ "manyThings.mp3", "myLike.gif", "moreCoco.BmP", "theFormat.bmp"]
array.delete_if { |elem| not elem =~ /.bmp/i }
array.each do |elem|
  puts elem
end


On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 8:22 PM, John Zoldiark <tavarezjonathan@gmail.com>wrote:

> I have an array like this:
> array = [ "manyThings.mp3", "myLike.gif", "moreCoco.bmp",
> "theFormat.bmp"]
>
> and I want to make some comparison to eliminate all the words in the
> array that are NOT of the bmp format.  So at the end the array will look
> like this:
>
> array = ["moreCoco.bmp", "theFormat.bmp"]
>
> is there a way to do this???
>
> Many thanks for the help
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
>

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