nobuyoshi nakada [mailto:nobuyoshi.nakada / ge.com] wrote: #> i'd like to double the element values except those loc on #the 2nd and 5th #> indices eg. # #$ ruby -renumerator -e 'p #(1..6).enum_for(:each_with_index).map{|x,i|[2,5].include?(i) ? #x : x*2}' #[2, 4, 3, 8, 10, 6] Hi Nobu, Wow, cool. But my brain is very tiny compared to other rubyist brains. i was hoping for something straight like, >[1,2,3,4,5,6].map{|x,i|[2,5].include?(i) ? x : x*2} =>[2, 4, 3, 8, 10, 6] Maybe you can hack one for dumb rubyists like me. thanks and kind regards -botp # #-- #Nobu Nakada #