From: Michael Garriss <mgarriss@...>
Date: 2003-09-19T23:02:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Removing "nil" entries from array

Thomas Adam wrote:

>Dear All,
>
>I have a really weird situation. I'm reading a file into an array, based
>on a grep match. This works fine.....
>
>...yet I re-ran my program using the same data file (unchanged) and now my
>array is being intermittently populated with "nil" values. Using "uniq()"
>doesn't remove them. Any ideas?
>
>  
>

[1, nil, 2, nil, 3, nil, 4].compact!
--> [1, 2, 3, 4]

....or you could use #compact if you don't want to change the array in 
place.

Regards,
Michael