two things array/ruby related

[Nubeat7]

not to distract from the OP ... and thanks for the examples TROG ...

but I've been trying to figure out how to change the output of the RUBY box from the proper ARRAY display:

["1", "a", "X"]

to one that is 'clean' .... 1 a X

or

1
a
X

I'm thinking the array is extracted into a string format. But I more familliar using PRIMS and still easily confused with RUBY. [need more practise ]

Thanks for info!

use stringarray output for the second example and .join(',') for the first one
you also could add .gsub(/\,/,"") to also remove the commas

[RJHollins]

.gsub(/\,/,"")

that's the one I keep forgetting about ...

I actually need to write this on paper to remember it .... and my name

[Nubeat7]

or you put this site in your favourites http://ruby-doc.org/core-2.0.0/String.h ... hod-i-gsub

[billv]

Thanks for the input Trog...

I got first example ok....but the 'nesting' one is killing me all morning...

The nesting example data for 3 arrays is structured like this....
["1/2/3", "a/b/c", "X/Y/Z"]

If i input 1 array it is structured like this
["1","2","3"]...

how can i make this method work using "real" inputs...?

and i can't seem to re-define the split....
should i be re-structuring the arrays(join,insert..ect,ect) till I get
a line of text that looks like ["1/2/3", "a/b/c", "X/Y/Z"]...?

Or is another method???

So it's currently...
my_array = ["1/2/3", "a/b/c", "X/Y/Z"]
I want to basicly...
my_array = [@a1, @a2, @a3]
somehow.. ..and get result..

[billv]

I found the issue i had...

If arrays are not the same size exception is raised....

This works fine ifarrays are same size....

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a = [@a]+[@b]
b = a.transpose
column = b[0]
output 0,column

[tester]

I'm starting to understand less and less from these chats...
Module examples are more helpful.

Let me clarify. "Get rows at list of indexes" will look like this I suppose, yes? And rows must not contain commas as a separators in order to work correctly, yes?

BTW, I see that in ruby you can use inputs by @names. What about named outputs?

[tester]

You're on the right track - but you need an array where each row is itself an array - i.e. nested array structure. So the string for each row will need converting to array form...

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my_array = ["1/2/3", "a/b/c", "X/Y/Z"]

# Convert rows into sub-arrays
nested_array = my_array.map do |row|
  row.split('/')
end

# You now have a nested array...
# [ ["1","2","3"], ["a","b","c"], ["X","Y","Z"] ]

# Now transpose so that columns become rows and vice versa
transposed_array = nested_array.transpose

# transposed array will now be
# [ ["1","a","X"], ["2","b","Y"], ["3","c","Z"] ]

# Get a column
column = transposed_array[0]  #=> ["1", "a", "X"}

I don't get that one. Could you upload it as a module with text connected on input?

[tester]

Okay, I managed that one, I guess.

Two things that are bothering me:
1) ruby window tend to show errors even if there are no errors (some sort of refreshing issue).
2) I see, that I tend to use names that are reserved for something.

[Nubeat7]

BTW, I see that in ruby you can use inputs by @names. What about named outputs?

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output 'myOutputName', value

[tester]

One thing regarding "get column" module. How to fill the array with nils, so that it will not produce an error, if some rows have less values?

Like this:

aaa/111/v/5
bbb/222/b/6
ccc/n

Third row is shorter by 2 items, thus it should end like this:

ccc/n//