On May 9, 2008, at 9:16 AM, Tim Conner wrote:

>  What is the best way to delete every other value in a ruby array?
>  e.g.
>  %w(a b c d e f g h i j k)
> 
>  becomes => [a c e g i k]

 > > ary = ("a".."k").to_a
=>  ["a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f", "g", "h", "i", "j", "k"]
 > > require "enumerator"
=>  true
 > > ary.enum_slice(2).map { |pair| pair.first }
=>  ["a", "c", "e", "g", "i", "k"]

Hope that helps.

James Edward Gray II