Simple ruby question. Lets say I have an array of 10 strings and I want to move elements at array[3] and array[5] into a totally new array. The new array would then only have the two elements I moved from the first array, AND the first array would then only have 8 elements since two of them have been moved out.
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Use Array#slice! to remove the elements from the first array, and append them to the second array with Array#<<:
arr1 = ['Foo', 'Bar', 'Baz', 'Qux']
arr2 = []
arr2 << arr1.slice!(1)
arr2 << arr1.slice!(2)
puts arr1.inspect
puts arr2.inspect
Output:
["Foo", "Baz"]
["Bar", "Qux"]
Depending on your exact situation, you may find other methods on array to be even more useful, such as Enumerable#partition:
arr = ['Foo', 'Bar', 'Baz', 'Qux']
starts_with_b, does_not_start_with_b = arr.partition{|word| word[0] == 'B'}
puts starts_with_b.inspect
puts does_not_start_with_b.inspect
Output:
["Bar", "Baz"]
["Foo", "Qux"]
Comments
a = (0..9).map { |i| "el##{i}" }
x = [3, 5].sort_by { |i| -i }.map { |i| a.delete_at(i) }
puts x.inspect
# => ["el#5", "el#3"]
puts a.inspect
# => ["el#0", "el#1", "el#2", "el#4", "el#6", "el#7", "el#8", "el#9"]
As noted in comments, there is some magic to make indices stay in place. This can be avoided by first getting all the desired elements using a.values_at(*indices), then deleting them as above.
4 Comments
Arup Rakshit
why did you do
#sort_by ?
Amadan
@ArupRakshit: If I don't remove them in descending order, the indices get messed up. If I remove #3, #5 drops to position #4; if I then remove #5, I have removed "el#6" instead of "el#5". But if I remove them from the biggest index down, the smaller indices stay in place.
Cary Swoveland
Further to @max's point,
sort is not limited to arrays whose elements respond to -.Amadan
@CarySwoveland: No, but
delete_at is. The array must contain integers, or the code would fail further down the line. I do agree that .sort.reverse is more readable though.Code:
arr = ["null","one","two","three","four","five","six","seven","eight","nine"]
p "Array: #{arr}"
third_el = arr.delete_at(3)
fifth_el = arr.delete_at(4)
first_arr = arr
p "First array: #{first_arr}"
concat_el = third_el + "," + fifth_el
second_arr = concat_el.split(",")
p "Second array: #{second_arr}"
Output:
c:\temp>C:\case.rb
"Array: [\"null\", \"one\", \"two\", \"three\", \"four\", \"five\", \"six\", \"s
even\", \"eight\", \"nine\"]"
"First array: [\"null\", \"one\", \"two\", \"four\", \"six\", \"seven\", \"eight
\", \"nine\"]"
"Second array: [\"three\", \"five\"]"
Comments
Why not start deleting from the highest index.
arr = ['Foo', 'Bar', 'Baz', 'Qux']
index_array = [2, 1]
new_ary = index_array.map { |index| arr.delete_at(index) }
new_ary # => ["Baz", "Bar"]
arr # => ["Foo", "Qux"]
Comments
Here's one way:
vals = arr.values_at *pulls
arr = arr.values_at *([*(0...arr.size)] - pulls)
Try it.
arr = %w[Now is the time for all Rubyists to code]
pulls = [3,5]
vals = arr.values_at *pulls
#=> ["time", "all"]
arr = arr.values_at *([*(0...arr.size)] - pulls)
#=> ["Now", "is", "the", "for", "Rubyists", "to", "code"]
arr = %w[Now is the time for all Rubyists to code]
pulls = [5,3]
vals = arr.values_at *pulls
#=> ["all", "time"]
arr = arr.values_at *([*(0...arr.size)] - pulls)
#=> ["Now", "is", "the", "for", "Rubyists", "to", "code"]