How to map over a nested array
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Solution 1
You don't need indexing at all.
my_array.map{|row| row.map{random_letter}}
If you want to retain the object id of each array and change the content, then you can use replace
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my_array.each{|row| row.replace(row.map{random_letter})}
Solution 2
I think the below will work:
my_array.map{|ar| ar.map{ "random number" } }
my_array = [[1,2,3,4],
[5,6,7,8],
[9,10,11,12]]
my_array.map{|ar| ar.map{ rand(100...400) }}
# => [[345, 264, 194, 157], [325, 117, 144, 149], [303, 228, 252, 199]]
Comments
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Steven Harlow almost 2 years
I have an array:
my_array = [[1,2,3,4], [5,6,7,8], [9,10,11,12]]
I want to iterate over each "cell" and change the value to something else. How can I do this without flattening the array and recomposing. Something like:
my_array.each_with_index do |row, row_index| row.each_with_index do |cell, col_index| my_array[row_index][col_index] = random_letter end end
The above method doesn't exactly turn out how I would think (the random letter's work, but each row has the same random letters as the last row, in the same order)
Thoughts?