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Comprehensive Ruby Programming

By : Jordan Hudgens
Book Image

Comprehensive Ruby Programming

By: Jordan Hudgens

Overview of this book

Ruby is a powerful, general-purpose programming language that can be applied to any task. Whether you are an experienced developer who wants to learn a new language or you are new to programming, this book is your comprehensive Ruby coding guide. Starting with the foundational principles, such as syntax, and scaling up to advanced topics such as big data analysis, this book will give you all of the tools you need to be a professional Ruby developer. A few of the key topics are: object-oriented programming, built-in Ruby methods, core programming skills, and an introduction to the Ruby on Rails and Sinatra web frameworks. You will also build 10 practical Ruby programs. Created by an experienced Ruby developer, this book has been written to ensure it focuses on the skills you will need to be a professional Ruby developer. After you have read this book, you will be ready to start building real-world Ruby projects.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)

Deleting items from arrays

Now that we know how to create an array and add elements to it, we will now see how to delete items from an array.

Let's start by creating an array. In Ruby, an array can contain elements of different data types, so let's build an array that contains strings, integers, and Booleans:

x = ["asdf", 3, 4, 12, "asdf", "b", true, 34, 2, 4, 4, 4] 

If we want to delete all the 4 elements from the array, we can run the following code:

x.delete(4) 

If we print x, we can see all elements except the 4 elements.

You can check the length of the array before and after deleting all the 4 elements. When you place x.length before the delete method, your array will return a value of 12. Also, if you run the length method after deleting the values of 4, your array's length will only be 8.

Now if I want to remove the element 12...