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Ruby program to get the first given number of items from the array

Ruby Example: Write a program to get the first given number of items from the array.
Submitted by Nidhi, on January 11, 2022

Problem Solution:

In this program, we will create an array of integers with few elements. Then we will get the first given number of items from the array using the first() method.

Program/Source Code:

The source code to get the first given number of items from the array is given below. The given program is compiled and executed successfully.

# Ruby program to get the first given number 
# of items from the array

arr = [100,101,102,103,104];
item = arr.first(2);

print "Array: ",arr,"\n";
print "First 2 items: ",item,"\n";

Output:

Array: [100, 101, 102, 103, 104]
First 2 items: [100, 101]

Explanation:

In the above program, we created an array of integers with few elements. Then we got the first 2 items from the array using the first() method and assigned the items into the item variable. After that, we printed the result.