From: Jason Creighton <androflux@...>
Date: 2003-09-20T06:20:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Removing "nil" entries from array

On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 22:54:24 +0900
Thomas Adam <thomas_adam16@yahoo.com> 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?

Well, as several people have mentioned, you could use Array#compact, but
if I were you, I would try to find out why you're getting nil values.
Could you post the smallest possible code snippet + data that shows this
problem?

Jason Creighton