I am looking for a way to perform a certain operation (for instance delete_if) on an array and return both the deleted elements, and the remaining elements.
For example
a = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10]
a.delete_if {|x| x.even? } #=> [[1, 3, 5, 7, 9]]
But what I am looking for is something like
a = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10]
a.some_operation #=> [[1,3,5,7,9],[2,4,6,8,10]]
How would I go about doing this?
Using Enumerable#partition:
a = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10]
a.partition &:even?
# => [[2, 4, 6, 8, 10], [1, 3, 5, 7, 9]]
The first element of the Enumerable#partition return value contains the elements that are evaluated to true in the block. So you need to use odd? to get what you want.
a.partition &:odd?
# => [[1, 3, 5, 7, 9], [2, 4, 6, 8, 10]]
You might be looking for something like this:
a = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10]
a.group_by { |x| x.even? }.values
#=> [[1, 3, 5, 7, 9], [2, 4, 6, 8, 10]]
