From: masta Blasta <lists@...>
Date: 2013-01-25T06:08:36+09:00
Subject: Enum#select with max number of items

My premise is that i have a large array that i'd like to iterate with
select, but
I want up to a maximum (n) number of returns. Something like
Enum#select_first_n_matches.

yes i could do my_arr.select{ blocky }.first(n). Which is a neat
one-liner, but has the performance overhead of iterating through the
entire array.

is there a method that does this already? Anyone have any slick one-line
solutions?

My working solution is:
new_arr = []; matches = 0
my_arr.each do |ele|
  if condition
     new_arr << ele
     matches += 1
     break if matches >= limit
  end
end

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