On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 7:00 AM, Misha Ognev <b1368810 / lhsdv.com> wrote:
> Hello, this don't work on ruby 1.9.2. What's matter?

Arrays in ruby are dynamic in so far as to its size.

> $a = Array.new
> for i in 1..5

    $a[i] = []  # insert; here we specify that the ith element is an array

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> a[i][j] = i*j
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> end

$a
#=> [nil, [nil, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8], [nil, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14,
16], [nil, 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 24], [nil, 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24,
28, 32], [nil, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40]]

note you have nils in there since arrays in ruby start at 0 index.

nonetheless, that was the long way.

now pls try playing w Array.new especially the block form.

eg,

Array.new(6){|i| 9.times.map{|j| i*j} }
#=> [[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8], [0, 2,
4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16], [0, 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 24], [0, 4, 8,
12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32], [0, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40]]

note, no nils.

hth.

kind regards -botp