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instance method
Array#drop
(::int count) -> ::Array[Elem]
drop(count) → new_array
array.c
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static VALUE
rb_ary_drop(VALUE ary, VALUE n)
{
VALUE result;
rb_len_t pos = NUM2LEN(n);
if (pos < 0) {
rb_raise(rb_eArgError, "attempt to drop negative size");
}
result = rb_ary_subseq(ary, pos, RARRAY_LEN(ary));
if (NIL_P(result)) result = rb_ary_new();
return result;
}
Returns a new array containing all but the first count element of self, where count is a non-negative integer; does not modify self.
Examples:
Example
a = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5] a.drop(0) # => [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5] a.drop(1) # => [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] a.drop(2) # => [2, 3, 4, 5] a.drop(9) # => []
Related: see Methods for Fetching.