Ruby Operators and Arrays - Home on the Range
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I wonder exactly how buffalo play. And what. Maybe when no one is looking they pull up an old log, light up a hickory pipe, and play a good game of chess, huffing and blowing smoke and mutter pip pip, cheerio a lot.
Ranges in Ruby don't have buffalo on them (well I guess they could if you really wanted). They allow you to work with a set of items. For instance, January through December would be a range. A group of numbers would also be a range, as shown below.
your_range = 1..10
puts your_range
This would print out the following:
1
2
3
4
etc. You can also use the ... operator, which simply omits the final value:
your_range = 1...10
puts your_range
Would print the values 1 through nine only. We'll get more into ranges in the next tutorial.
That's right, I tricked you. Here you thought we would be doing Conditionals and Loops and all kinds of crazy statements. Well you were wrong. It was just a brilliant trick to get you to read the next tutorial (well that and I ran past my word limit). So stick with me and read the next tutorial, where we will get down and dirty with Ruby.
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