From: Harry Kakueki <list.push@...>
Date: 2009-09-17T18:55:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Itterate over an Array Extracting Data

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 6:34 PM, 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.
> --
>
>

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


p people.transpose[3]


Harry
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