From: Jeremy Bopp <jeremy@...>
Date: 2010-10-27T01:11:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Extraction of single subarrays from multidimensional array

On 10/26/2010 11:05 AM, Maurizio Cirilli wrote:
> Thank you all for the very very instructive replies-
> I have the very last question: how to make this iteration
> through splat operator general  i.e. flexible covering cases
> in which the number of subarrays (a,b,c) in the above example
> is unknown? I mean, the splatter operator, doing iteration
> automatically,
> does not return any count on the columns of the ss input m-array so
> how to know
> how many variables to put on the left side of the assignment
> a, b, c = *ss  ?
> 
> Maybe such question is trivial but not for me: I spent several hours
> thinking about that and still I have no clue how to do that (the hard
> life
> of the beginners!!)  :-)

It is not possible to do what you're proposing.  If you just want to
iterate over the array contents, us the each method of the array object:

ss.each do |item|
  # Do something with the item here.
end

-Jeremy