Ruby multidimensional array

Question

Maybe it\'s just my lack of abilities to find stuff here that is the problem, but I can\'t find anything about how to create multidimensional arrays in Ruby.

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Answer 1

Use can also use the XKeys Gem.

require 'xkeys'

regular = [].extend XKeys::Auto
regular[1,2,3] = 4
# [nil, [nil, nil, [nil, nil, nil, 4]]]
regular[3,2,1, :else=>0] # 0
# Note: regular[1,2] is a slice
# Use regular[1,2,{}] to access regular[1][2]

sparse = {}.extend XKeys::Hash
sparse[1,2,3] = 4
# {1=>{2=>{3=>4}}}
path=[1,2,3]
sparse[*path,{}] # 4