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Ruby - Array substitution

What the second instruction does? Why is the output "mykeyholder"? Doesn't it substitute in position 1 "bottle" also? items = ["place", "key", "holder"] items[1,0] = ["bottle", "my"] puts items[-3], items[-2], items[-1]

12th Sep 2019, 5:34 PM
Paolo De Nictolis
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Initial items in the array items=["place", "key", "holder"] Now new items are needed to add up to the given values in the array with an instruction which says items [1,0]. This implies that the new set of values to be added up to the array should be placed at index position 1 and should include everything in the array. So every item in the new array is included. The new array becomes.. ["place","bottle","my","key", "holder"] Now the output for item[-3]=my item[-2]=key item[-1]=holder So the final output = "mykeyholder".
3rd Feb 2020, 7:06 PM
Jarvis
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items = ["place", "key", "holder"] items[1,0] = ["bottle", "my"] # [1,0] indicates that ["bottle", "my"] will insert after "place" # Now - items = ["place", "bottle", "my" , "key", "holder"] puts items[-3], items[-2], items[-1] # items[-3] = "my"; items[-2] = "key"; items[-1] = "holder"
5th Oct 2019, 1:55 PM
Sigitas Janušauskas
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