From: matt@... (matt neuburg)
Date: 2009-04-01T01:10:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Array read to seperate items

Stuart Clarke <stuart.clarke1986@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have an array which gets data added to in a loop like so:
> 
> a  b  c  d  e  f
> a  b  c  d  e  f
> 
> I am aware calling join("\n")on this array will separate each line of
> the array with a new line, but I want to separate the individual items
> and load them into there own arrays for example
> 
> array a = a, a
> array b = b, b

Are you talking about something like this?

arr = ["hey ho hey nonnie no", "bee bop a ding dong", "a b c d e"]
arr = arr.map {|s| s.split(" ")}
arr = arr.shift.zip(*arr)
p arr
#=> [["hey", "bee", "a"], ["ho", "bop", "b"], ["hey", "a", "c"],
["nonnie", "ding", "d"], ["no", "dong", "e"]]

m.

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