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I feel quite silly asking this question, but here I am. I have what I
believe to be a 2 dimensional array, but I can not access the elements
in the array with the array syntax array[1][0] when I select the first
element in the array with array.first or array[1], I get
array[["first","first value"]] but I am not able to access the string
"first" or the string "first value"

my array looks like :
[["first","first value"]]
[["second","second value"]]
[["third","third value"]]
[["third","third value"]]
[["fifth","fifth value"]]

How can I get the elements in this array? am I missing something here?
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On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Arti Singh <> wrote:

> I feel quite silly asking this question, but here I am. I have what I
> believe to be a 2 dimensional array, but I can not access the elements
> in the array with the array syntax array[1][0] when I select the first
> element in the array with array.first or array[1], I get
> array[["first","first value"]] but I am not able to access the string
> "first" or the string "first value"
>
> my array looks like :
> [["first","first value"]]
> [["second","second value"]]
> [["third","third value"]]
> [["third","third value"]]
> [["fifth","fifth value"]]
>
> How can I get the elements in this array? am I missing something here?
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>
> You don't need double brackets to declare an array.

["first","first value"]
["second","second value"]
["third","third value"]
["third","third value"]
["fifth","fifth value"]

You declared an invalid multidimensional array. To declare a
multidimensional array:

[["first","first value"], ["second","second value"], ["third","third
value"], ["third","third value"], ["fifth","fifth value"]]


Your multidimensional array looks like this:
[["first","first value"]]

The second set of brackets are closing off the first multidimensional array.
At that point, you're trying to access array[1][0], but there's only a
zeroeth element. Remember: the first element in any array is at offset 0, so
to access the first element of this multidimensional array: array[0][0]

Make sense?

James



If you're declaring a multid

Thanks, James. I owe you one.
I had been reading the data from the datasource incorrectly.
xclworksheet.Range("A1:B20").rows.each{|r|ea_array .push(r.value.inspect)
instead I should have just done
ea_array=xclworksheet.Range("A1:B20")['Value']










James wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Arti Singh <>
> wrote:
>
>> [["third","third value"]]
>> [["third","third value"]]
>> [["fifth","fifth value"]]
>>
>> How can I get the elements in this array? am I missing something here?
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>>
>> You don't need double brackets to declare an array.
>
> ["first","first value"]
> ["second","second value"]
> ["third","third value"]
> ["third","third value"]
> ["fifth","fifth value"]
>
> You declared an invalid multidimensional array. To declare a
> multidimensional array:
>
> [["first","first value"], ["second","second value"], ["third","third
> value"], ["third","third value"], ["fifth","fifth value"]]
>
>
> Your multidimensional array looks like this:
> [["first","first value"]]
>
> The second set of brackets are closing off the first multidimensional
> array.
> At that point, you're trying to access array[1][0], but there's only a
> zeroeth element. Remember: the first element in any array is at offset
> 0, so
> to access the first element of this multidimensional array: array[0][0]
>
> Make sense?
>
> James
>
>
>
> If you're declaring a multid

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