i'm doing my first steps in ruby (on rails) and often use things like
for thing in @several_things
聽聽print thing
end
Ok so far, looks great
But i often need a counter inside of the loop, may it be to create row
colors or other stuff. What i end up with then is:
i = 0
for thing in @several_things
聽聽print thing + " No. " + i.to_s
聽聽i += 1
end
Pardon me, but this is ugly, compared to the first clean lines. So far i
know ruby as an elegant language, so i wouldn't be surpised if there'd
be any kind of implemented counter in the for loop or a smarter way to
implement it.
i'm doing my first steps in ruby (on rails) and often use things like
for thing in @several_things
print thing
end
[...]
For reasons I find it difficult to express the for-in construct is frowned
upon. There are better and more flexible iteration constructs, and it looks
like you are starting to feel the need for them.
But i often need a counter inside of the loop, may it be to create row
colors or other stuff. What i end up with then is:
i = 0
for thing in @several_things
print thing + " No. " + i.to_s
i += 1
end
[...]
This is where each_with_index, one of those more flexible iteration
constructs, comes in.
@several_thing.each_with_index do |thing,i|
print thing + " No. " + i.to_s
i += 1
end
You should be familiar with ri for reading Ruby API documentation. Look up
Enumerable for the wide variety of iteration/enumeration constructs Ruby
gives you right out of the box. There are even more advanced constructs
available from other libraries (e.g. facets).
Thanks a lot for any help!
R.D.
--Greg
路路路
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 07:24:34AM +0900, Daniel Liebig wrote:
i'm doing my first steps in ruby (on rails) and often use things like
for thing in @several_things
print thing
end
Ok so far, looks great
But i often need a counter inside of the loop, may it be to create row
colors or other stuff. What i end up with then is:
i = 0
for thing in @several_things
print thing + " No. " + i.to_s
i += 1
end
[..]
Any hints?
Thanks a lot for any help!
R.D.
C:\Documents and Settings\CynicalRyan>cat test.rb @things = ["one", "two", "three"]
@things.each_with_index do |thing,i|
puts thing
puts i
end
C:\Documents and Settings\CynicalRyan>ruby -v test.rb
ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13 patchlevel 0) [i386-mswin32]
one
0
two
1
three
2
i'm doing my first steps in ruby (on rails) and often use things like
for thing in @several_things
print thing
end
Let's start with equivalent code:
@several_things.each do |thing|
print thing
end
Ok so far, looks great
But i often need a counter inside of the loop, may it be to create row
colors or other stuff. What i end up with then is:
i = 0
for thing in @several_things
print thing + " No. " + i.to_s
i += 1
end
Now let me introduce Enumerable module, that contains each_with_index:
@several_things.each_with_index do |thing, i|
print "#{thing} No. #{i}"
end
Note: #{expression} is replaced with expression.to_s (more or less)
Lookup Enumerable in the docs, it contains lots of useful stuff.
路路路
On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 11:24 PM, Daniel Liebig <d.liebig@wevin.de> wrote:
Pardon me, but this is ugly, compared to the first clean lines. So far i
know ruby as an elegant language, so i wouldn't be surpised if there'd
be any kind of implemented counter in the for loop or a smarter way to
implement it.
On 3/1/08, Daniel Liebig <d.liebig@wevin.de> wrote:
Hi,
i'm doing my first steps in ruby (on rails) and often use things like
for thing in @several_things
print thing
end
Ok so far, looks great
But i often need a counter inside of the loop, may it be to create row
colors or other stuff. What i end up with then is:
i = 0
for thing in @several_things
print thing + " No. " + i.to_s
i += 1
end
Pardon me, but this is ugly, compared to the first clean lines. So far i
know ruby as an elegant language, so i wouldn't be surpised if there'd
be any kind of implemented counter in the for loop or a smarter way to
implement it.
E:\>irb --prompt xmp
a = %w(zero one two three)
==>["zero", "one", "two", "three"]
a.each_with_index{|x,i| puts "Item no. #{i} is #{x}."}
Item no. 0 is zero.
Item no. 1 is one.
Item no. 2 is two.
Item no. 3 is three.
==>["zero", "one", "two", "three"]
路路路
On Mar 1, 4:24 pm, Daniel Liebig <d.lie...@wevin.de> wrote:
Hi,
i'm doing my first steps in ruby (on rails) and often use things like
for thing in @several_things
print thing
end
Ok so far, looks great
But i often need a counter inside of the loop, may it be to create row
colors or other stuff. What i end up with then is:
i = 0
for thing in @several_things
print thing + " No. " + i.to_s
i += 1
end
Pardon me, but this is ugly, compared to the first clean lines. So far i
know ruby as an elegant language, so i wouldn't be surpised if there'd
be any kind of implemented counter in the for loop or a smarter way to
implement it.
i'm doing my first steps in ruby (on rails) and often use things like
for thing in @several_things
print thing
end
[...]
For reasons I find it difficult to express the for-in construct is
frowned
upon. There are better and more flexible iteration constructs, and it
looks
like you are starting to feel the need for them.
But i often need a counter inside of the loop, may it be to create row
colors or other stuff. What i end up with then is:
i = 0
for thing in @several_things
print thing + " No. " + i.to_s
i += 1
end
[...]
This is where each_with_index, one of those more flexible iteration
constructs, comes in.
@several_thing.each_with_index do |thing,i|
print thing + " No. " + i.to_s
i += 1
end
Rather that should be:
arr = ['a', 'b', 'c']
arr.each_with_index do |elmt, i|
puts "Element at index #{i} is: #{elmt}"
end
--output:--
Element at index 0 is: a
Element at index 1 is: b
Element at index 2 is: c
路路路
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 07:24:34AM +0900, Daniel Liebig wrote:
On Mar 1, 4:24 pm, Daniel Liebig <d.lie...@wevin.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i'm doing my first steps in ruby (on rails) and often use things like
>
> for thing in @several_things
> print thing
> end
>
> Ok so far, looks great
>
> But i often need a counter inside of the loop, may it be to create row
> colors or other stuff. What i end up with then is:
>
> i = 0
> for thing in @several_things
> print thing + " No. " + i.to_s
> i += 1
> end
>
> Pardon me, but this is ugly, compared to the first clean lines. So far i
> know ruby as an elegant language, so i wouldn't be surpised if there'd
> be any kind of implemented counter in the for loop or a smarter way to
> implement it.
>
E:\>irb --prompt xmp
a = %w(zero one two three)
==>["zero", "one", "two", "three"]
a.each_with_index{|x,i| puts "Item no. #{i} is #{x}."}
Item no. 0 is zero.
Item no. 1 is one.
Item no. 2 is two.
Item no. 3 is three.
==>["zero", "one", "two", "three"]
puts a.zip((0...a.size).to_a).map{|a| "Item #{a[1]} is #{a[0]}"}
Item 0 is zero
Item 1 is one
Item 2 is two
Item 3 is three
