A use of Enumerable#chunk

drbrain | Fri, 16 Mar 2012 23:19:07 GMT Posted in Ruby In Ruby 1.9, Enumerable has a few new methods including Enumerable#chunk (which was added for 1.9.2). The #chunk method walks your Enumerable and divides it into chunks based on a selecting block. Unlike Enumerable#partition, the chunks are returned in-order. Here's an example from the documentation: [3, 1, 4, 1, 5, 9, 2, 6, 5, 3, 5].chunk { |n| n.even? }.each { |even, ary| p [even, ary] } #=> [false, [3, 1]] # [true, [4]] # [false, [1, 5, 9]] # [true, [2, 6]] # [false, [5, 3, 5]] When I first saw this method I thought, "this looks like a useful method… but how?" I'm working on bringing Markdown support to RDoc and the last remaining base Markdown feature I need to support is a hard break due to two spaces at the end of a line in a paragraph. For background, RDoc parses various formats into a common syntax tree which i...

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Ah, the sheer wonder and variety of Enumerable! May I direct your attention to chunk? [link]
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