From: Paul Smith <paul@...>
Date: 2009-10-01T21:39:42+09:00
Subject: Re: how do you do this

2009/10/1 Jesús Gabriel y Galán <jgabrielygalan@gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 2:23 PM, George George <george.githinji@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Given an array of strings e.g.
>>  x = ["abc","abcde" "def","xyzwj"] and of different lengths,
>> how can you efficiently create new arrays of strings which are of the
>> same length. for example the above array can be transformed into
>>
>> x1 = ["abc","def"]
>> x2 = ["abcde","xyzwj"]
>
> You might want to look at group_by:
>
>  %w{abc ads adfdf adfdw fefm mfekmw fmdms}.group_by {|x| x.length}

I really can't believe Ruby sometimes.  This is so freaking awesome!

Must get back to real work...
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