Can I create an array in Ruby with default values?

Question

Perl is pretty nice about default values:

: jmglov@laurana; perl -e \'@foo; printf \"%d\\n\", $foo[123]\'
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: jmglov@laurana; perl -e \'%foo; printf \"%d\\n\         


        

Answer 1

The easiest way would be:

new_array = Array.new(size, default_value)

For example:

new_array = Array.new(5,"foo")