Question

I have an array of objects of variable length n. Defined by the number of records in my database.

I need a function to grab subsets (keeping the objects in order and always beginning at index 0) of the array of specified length m where m can be any integer I pass in.

e.g. if n = 10 and m = 4

array foo = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]

subset a = [0, 1, 2, 3]
subset b = [4, 5, 6, 7]
subset c = [8, 9]

So, I need to programmatically be able to say, “Give me the i-th subset of length m from an array, given the array is length n.” Using the previous example: “Give me the second subset of length four from foo” => returns the items at positions [4, 5, 6, 7].

I hope that made sense. Assistance with a ruby solution would be much appreciated! thx!

Answer 1

   foo.each_slice(subset_length).to_a[subset_index]

e.g. foo.each_slice(4).to_a[2] returns “the second subset of length four from foo”.