method
drop
ruby latest stable - Class:
Array
drop(p1)public
Drops first n elements from ary and returns the rest of the elements in an array.
If a negative number is given, raises an ArgumentError.
See also Array#take
a = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 0] a.drop (3) #=> [4, 5, 0]
static VALUE
rb_ary_drop(VALUE ary, VALUE n)
{
VALUE result;
long pos = NUM2LONG(n);
if (pos < 0) {
rb_raise(rb_eArgError, "attempt to drop negative size");
}
result = rb_ary_subseq(ary, pos, RARRAY_LEN(ary));
if (result == Qnil) result = rb_ary_new();
return result;
}