From: Jeremy Bopp <jeremy@...>
Date: 2010-09-30T05:19:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Accessing variables of instances in an array?

On 9/29/2010 3:15 PM, Paul Roche wrote:
> Jeremy Bopp wrote:
>> On 9/29/2010 2:45 PM, Paul Roche wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> How can I print out specific variables for each instance?
>>>
>>>
>>> eg variables...
>>>
>>> name
>>> age
>>
>> an_arry.each { |item| puts "#{item.name} #{item.age}" }
>>
>> -Jeremy
> 
> Thanks Jeremy, that does the job. By the way is 'item' a keyword?

No, item is not a keyword.  You can replace that with any valid variable
name.  When you start using other methods that take blocks, you'll find
that you can use more than one variable within the | ... | as well.
Some blocks even take an empty list.

-Jeremy