On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 4:16 PM, Tim Conner <crofty_james@[...].com>  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]

what about #values_at
x.values_at( *(0...x.size).map{|i| (i%2).zero? && i || nil}.compact) )

too bad compact does not do what *I* want ;).

HTH
Robert
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