From: Dominik Honnef <dominikh@...>
Date: 2011-04-16T19:34:13+09:00
Subject: Re: how to count values in an array using 1.8.6 ?

Richard Sandoval <skolopen@yahoo.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> How can I count all keys in an array?
>
> For instance, I want to do this
>
>>> countme = [1,2,3,4,4,4,4,4,5]
> => [1, 2, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5]
>>> countme.count
> => 9
>
> but in ruby 1.8.6, there is only size which doesn't quite work...


I can't quite see what the problem is here.

In 1.9.x, Array#{length,size,count} are synonymous, and 1.8.6 is just
missing the last of those, #count. #length and #size still behave the
exact same and return 9 for your example array.