From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2003-12-29T09:19:56+09:00
Subject: Re: An addition to Array (or Enumerable)?

[Gennady:]
>> What I then wanted to do was pull out items 4 and 8 (the size and
>> filename) into a new two-element array. I half expected to be able to
>> do that via:
>>
>>   data = listing[[4, 8]]
>
> data = listing.select(4,8)
> or for older Ruby
> data = listing.indices(4,8)

Enumerable#select is an alias for #find_all.

#values_at is the 1.8 version of #indices (I miss that method name :).

Gavin