Ruby Quick Syntax Reference

CHAPTER 4

Arrays

Ruby arrays are integer–indexed arrays starting at position 0, rather like Java or C. Negative values can be used to retrieve values from the array from the end, so −1 would show the last element of an array, and −2 would show the second from last element.

2.1.0 :001 > array = [1,10,3,1] => [1, 10, 3, 1]2.1.0 :002 > array[0] => 12.1.0 :003 > array[-1] => 12.1.0 :004 > array[-2] => 3

Creating Arrays

An array can be created within ruby in a number of different syntaxes, the simplest is the use of the literal constructor []. Arrays are not type dependent, and therefore can contain multiple data types such as another array, a string ...