Hi,

2008/6/7 Jason Lillywhite <jason.lillywhite / gmail.com>:
> Thanks Eric!
> however, it appears when you capture the return value b by using the
> name of the method it comes from, you only get the last value of the
> array and not the array itself.
>
> the method 'counter' returns the array:
> 1.5  2
> 3.0  3
> 4.5  4
> 6.0  5
> 7.5  6
> 9.0  7
>
> and I want to take array 'b' which is:
> 1.5
> 3.0
> 4.5
> 6.0
> 7.5
> 9.0
>
> and do stuff with it, maybe even just print it out alone by calling the
> second method 'counter2'. My goal here is to learn how to take only one
> of the arrays from a method and use it in another.

Do you want something like this?

def counter
  return ["1.5\t2","3.0\t3","4.5\t4","6.0\t5","7.5\t6","9.0\t7"]
end

def counter2
  b = counter.map{|x|x.split(/\t/).first}
  puts b
end


Regards,

Park Heesob