From: Vikhyat Korrapati <c@...>
Date: 2012-01-21T18:51:25+09:00
Subject: Re: (Beginner Question) Trying to extract elements from an embeded array

Hi,

I made a minor change and got it to work. :)

http://codepad.org/ybmXU9s3

Do you see the change I made, and do you see why it was needed? 

Vikhyat Korrapati
http://vikhyat.net/


On Saturday 21 January 2012 at 3:10 PM, Dave Elman wrote:

> Hiya All,
> 
> I've been learning Ruby for about 2 weeks or so and had a go at putting
> together proper bit of code, which I of course can't get working ;) Part
> of my practice is to see how if..., while..., collect... and so on work.
> 
> In the code I have a set of embedded arrays with various strings. I then
> generate a sequential number (0, 1, 2, etc) and a random number. With
> those I index into each array in sequence using the sequence number, and
> use the random number to pick a string at random from within them.
> 
> The output should be say "a, B" or "c, A", etc.
> 
> I've been testing this in SciTe and get results of either [nil, nil] or
> just "a, b" every time. Running it in Codepad I got [nil, nil] and [98,
> 98].
> 
> How the heck I can get nil, nil I don;t know, I'm guessing I'm getting
> int/str mixed up here.
> 
> If anyone has a moment, could you look over the code I pasted at
> Codepad. Any guidance on what I'm missing here technically and logically
> would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> http://codepad.org/ohuMRrlE
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Dave.
> 
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