From: Nicholas Orr Date: 2010-07-29T07:43:42+09:00 Subject: Re: how to determine array element number in a each loop --00221532c5bc607f25048c7a599b Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 or use each_with_index http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Enumerable.html#M003137 On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 8:41 AM, James Harrison wrote: > > > > The title is quite self explanatory: I am in > > > > dummy_array.each do |a| > > #code here > > end > > > > and I want to know which element (the number n in nth element) of the > > dummy_array. > > > > You could just put a counting variable in there: > > > i = 0 > > dummy_array.each do |a| > i = i+1 > > #code here > > end > > You can also use each_index on the array if you'd like. > > http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Array.html#M002174 > > --00221532c5bc607f25048c7a599b--