From: Paul Smith <paul@...>
Date: 2009-09-17T18:47:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Itterate over an Array Extracting Data

people.each {|person| puts person[3]}

PS I had to enter your array differently - what you typed here didn't work.

> people =  [["Employee 1", "Secretary", "Male", "54"],
>          ["Employee 2", "Manager", "Female", "44"],
>          ["Employee 3", "Chef", "Female", "22"]]


On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Daniel Russia <danielvblass@gmail.com> wrote:
> So I have the following array
>
> people =  ["Employee 1", "Secretary", "Male", "54"]
>          ["Employee 2", "Manager", "Female", "44"]
>          ["Employee 3", "Chef", "Female", "22"]
>
> I would like to iterate over this array pulling out just the ages. How
> can I do this?
>
> I tried the following:
>
> x = 0
> while x < people.length
> puts people[x][3]
> x += 1
> end
>
> How could I put the results into an array? IRB doesn't like my code.
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>
>



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