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

Ruby Example: Write a program to remove 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 remove the first given number of items from the array using the shift() method.

Program/Source Code:

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

# Ruby program to remove first given number 
# of items from array

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

print "Array: ",arr,"\n";
print "Removed items: ",item,"\n";

Output:

Array: [102, 103, 104]
Removed items: [100, 101]

Explanation:

In the above program, we created an array of integers with few elements. Then we removed the first given number of items from the array using the shift() method and assigned the removed items into the item variable. After that, we printed the removed items and updated the array.