Arrays in Ruby

What have I found out so far?

• Definition of Ruby
• Ruby Windows Installer
• Interactive Ruby - Open a new DOS window and type irb --simple-prompt A prompt appears as >>
• Run a Ruby program by typing ruby hello.rb
• Learnt some features of Ruby like comments, naming rules, variables, constants, strings etc.
• Various Text Editors/IDEs like SciTE, NotePad2
• Constructs like the if else and while
• Some methods in Ruby.

Today, I am going to look at arrays in Ruby. Arrays are best explained by the following example.

# Arrays
name = ['Satish', 'Talim', 'Ruby', 'Java']
puts name[0]
puts name[1]
puts name[2]
puts name[3]
# the next one outputs nil
puts name[4]
# we can add more elements too
name[4] = 'Pune'
puts name[4]
# we can add anything!
name[5] = 4.33
puts name[5]
# we can add an array to an array
name[6] = [1, 2, 3]
puts name[6]

# some methods on arrays
newarr = [45, 23, 1, 90]
puts newarr.sort
puts newarr.reverse
puts newarr.length

# iterator each - extracts each element into lang
languages = ['Pune', 'Mumbai', 'Bangalore']

languages.each do |lang|
  puts 'I love ' + lang + '!'
  puts 'Don\'t you?'
end

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