On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 7:13 AM, David Springer <dnspringer / gmail.com> wrote: > after some inspiration from Luc I was able to come up with this: > > textlist = ["Apple", "Orange", "Lemon", "Grape", "Orange", > > (0..textlist.length-1).select {|i| textlist[i] == "Orange"}[1] > Same thing only different :) p textlist.fill{|x| x if textlist[x] == "Orange"}.compact[1] Harry