Home » Ruby Tutorial » Ruby Programs

Ruby program to remove the first item from the array

Last Updated : December 15, 2025

Problem Solution

In this program, we will create an array of integers with few elements. Then we will remove the first item from the array using the shift() method.

Program/Source Code

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

# Ruby program to remove the 
# first item from array

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

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

Output

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

Explanation

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

Ruby Arrays Programs »