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Working with Arrays

Working with Arrays

Get yourself versed in Arrays and how to operate on them in Ruby!

Arrays are like bags that contain things

While numbers, Strings, true, false, and nil all represent simple, primitive things, Arrays are more interesting, and very useful.

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An Array is an object that stores other objects.

An Array is created by separating values by commas, and enclosing this list with square brackets, like so:

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[1, 2, 3]

This is a simple Array that holds three numbers.

An Array is created by listing objects, separated by commas, and enclosed by square brackets.

Arrays can contain all kinds of things:

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["A string", 1, true, :symbol, 2]

This creates an Array with 5 elements, i.e. a bag that contains 5 things: a string, a number, true, a symbol, and another number.

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Arrays can contain all kinds of objects.

Note that in Ruby ...

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