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Destructuring assignment in Ruby and splats!
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# Destructuring assignment in Ruby
# http://po-ru.com/diary/destructuring-assignment-in-ruby/
numbers = [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
=> [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
# Destructuring assignment
a, b, c = numbers
a
=> 1
b
=> 2
c
=> 3
# Gather up array elements
a, *b, c = numbers
a
=> 1
b
=> [2, 3, 4]
c
=> 5
# Ignore elements you don't care about
a, *, b = numbers
a
=> 1
b
=> 5
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nemuba commented Dec 18, 2019

Ruby is awesome !

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waqas02 commented Apr 27, 2021

way to do the same thing in hashes?

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