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]
>  
>  thanks

This solution is less elegant and rubylike than some of the others, but 
at least it is fairly portable...

   a = %w(a b c d e f g h i j k)

   n = (a.size/2.0).ceil
   n.times do |i|
     a[i] = a[2*i]
   end
   a.slice!(n..-1)

   p a # ==>  ["a", "c", "e", "g", "i", "k"]

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