Ruby:concatenate pairs of strings in an array

Question

Given the array

["zone", "abigail", "theta", "form", "libe", "zas"]

Is there a straightforward way to go through the array and combine the strings into pairs, thus...

["zoneabigail", "abigailtheta", "thetaform", "formlibe", "libezas"]

ndnenkov · Accepted Answer · 2016-10-03 13:13:41Z

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You are searching for Enumerable#each_cons:

words.each_cons(2).map(&:join)

answered Oct 3, 2016 at 13:13

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GhostRider Over a year ago

This is really good - works well. I apologise for not giving my attempts. My issue is that I didn't know where to start. This gives me something to study.

ndnenkov Over a year ago

@GhostRider happy to help.

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