From: Dan Nachbar <dan@...>
Date: 2011-09-04T23:08:42+09:00
Subject: Re: loops problem

On Sep 4, 2011, at 9:46 AM, jack jones wrote:

> for (j = @array.length ; j > counter  ; j = j-1) # counter is a variable
>  @array[j+1] = @array[j]
> end
> 
> obviously this loop is invalid in ruby .. can any one tell me something
> equivalent to it ?

For this task, I would use #insert rather than iterating, as in

@array.insert(counter,@array[counter])

Dan Nachbar