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Caleb Kleveter
Treehouse Moderator 37,862 PointsItems in arrays
How do I check to see how many items are in an array?
2 Answers
Joe Cochran
18,249 PointsAssuming an array called array:
array.length
or
array.size
array.count will only work on Will return the number of items in the array. For more info, check out the documentation on ruby arrays. Class: Array
Caleb Kleveter
Treehouse Moderator 37,862 PointsThanks for reminding me.
Joe Cochran
18,249 PointsGlad to help! I actually found out that there are three ways to do this. Array.length, Array.count, and Array.size. Here's a nice article that goes in to explaining what each method is, and why you would use it! Good for some morning reading: