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Courses Plus Student 586 PointsDatatype in Ruby Array or Other?
I'm having trouble determining what the datatype of the following variables are: A, B, C. Not too familiar with Regex or split so that could be part of the issue. The main issue here is that I cannot split C. Do I have to push the data from B to an array before that takes place and if so, how should I go about that?
ReadPath = File.read("ReadFile.txt")
A = ReadPath
B = A.split(/[\s,']/)
C = B.select.each_with_index { |str, i| i.even? }
C.split(/[\s,']/)
E = B.select.each_with_index { |str, i| i.odd? }
2 Answers
Brandon Barrette
20,485 PointsI recommend that you call
A.class, B.class, etc
This will tell you if it is a string, array, etc.
I'm guessing you are trying to get just the even indices, here's a good explanation:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1614147/odd-or-even-entries-in-a-ruby-array
Rob Munoz
Courses Plus Student 586 PointsThanks so much Brandon!
I called class on A, B, C etc... and the split method changes the datatype from string to an array. But it is hard to imagine that there isn't another method like split used on arrays to do the same thing! I'm wondering what that is, or how I might improve my implementation...
And that is actually where I got the method for select by index, so excellent find if I do say so myself!
Rob Munoz
Courses Plus Student 586 PointsRob Munoz
Courses Plus Student 586 PointsI'm guessing part of the problem is the datatype conversion:
A = string, B = string, C = array, .split is not an array method?