From: Ralph Shnelvar <ralphs@...32.com>
Date: 2012-04-15T10:54:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Creating an array containing sums of combinations of ranges

Jeff,

Saturday, April 14, 2012, 5:54:41 PM, you wrote:

JC> I've got a puzzle I haven't been able to solve. I have two user-provided
JC> arrays that look something like this:

JC> [1..2, 2..3]

JC> and

JC> [2, 3]

JC> I need to produce an array containing every possible sum of the ranges
JC> multiplied by the corresponding member of the second array. i.e. if the
JC> first array is [n, m] and the second array is [x, y], I need an array
JC> containing every possible (nx + my).

JC> Normally I'd do a couple of nested loops, but I need the arrays can be
JC> of arbitrary lengths.

JC> How should I go about this?

Could you give some more examples.  Your English is a bit ambiguous.

Have you thought about using something like Cucumber to specify the problem?

Ralph Shnelvar