From: Pit Capitain <pit.capitain@...>
Date: 2009-02-12T07:32:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Array uniq

2009/2/11 Stuart Little <stuart_clarke1986@hotmail.co.uk>:
> This
>
> dateCheck = [time.gsub(/\s/, '')[0..7] + time[26..29]]
>      #printdata.push(dateCheck)
>      @alerts.push dateCheck
>
> gets me:
>
> TueAug052008
> TueAug052008
> TueAug052008
> WedAug062008
> WedAug062008
> TueAug052008

This is not what I suggested. I just wanted the output of

  p dateCheck
  p dateCheck.uniq

and I'm sure we can tell you immediately what's going wrong.

If you don't want to do this for some reason, I repeat what I've
written before: you still have an array with just one element: a
string of size 12. So #uniq returns the same array. But if you still
say that you get six lines of output, I suspect that you execute the
code you've shown in a loop and that you are filling the array
@alerts. If this is the case, you are using #uniq at the wrong place.
Either do @alerts.uniq *after* the loop or use the code David has
shown you.

Regards,
Pit