gist: 71219 - moving an item in an Array to the front while preserving original order for rest of Array- GitHub


  
      move-to-front-of-line.rb #
    
    
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              class Array
  def move_to_front_of_line(x)
    return [ self[x] ] | self
  end
end
            
          
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              >> people = [ 'Alex', 'Carlos', 'Dawn', 'Chris', 'Robby', 'Gary', 'Allison' ]
=> ["Alex", "Carlos", "Dawn", "Chris", "Robby", "Gary", "Allison"]
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?> people.move_to_front_of_line(3)
=> ["Chris", "Alex", "Carlos", "Dawn", "Robby", "Gary", "Allison"]
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?> people.move_to_front_of_line(people.index('Allison'))
=> ["Allison", "Alex", "Carlos", "Dawn", "Chris", "Robby", "Gary"]
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