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Re: search nearest to elements in array (hash)

From 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.ruby
Subject Re: search nearest to elements in array (hash)
Date 2011-05-14 16:28 -0500
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Message-ID <e14a95c303a52d74dfbb6f4eb1af888e@ruby-forum.com> (permalink)
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data = [1.1, 4.2, 3.1, 2.6, 6.1, 5.0]
needle = rand 10

arr = data.map do |num|
   [(num - needle).abs, num]
end

sorted = arr.sort_by {|sub_arr| sub_arr[0]}

puts needle
puts sorted.first[1]

--output:--
2
2.6

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search nearest to elements in array (hash) "Mateus .." <excanoe@gmail.com> - 2011-05-14 16:05 -0500
  Re: search nearest to elements in array (hash) serialhex <serialhex@gmail.com> - 2011-05-14 16:21 -0500
  Re: search nearest to elements in array (hash) 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-14 16:28 -0500
    Re: search nearest to elements in array (hash) Martin DeMello <martindemello@gmail.com> - 2011-05-14 16:33 -0500
    Re: search nearest to elements in array (hash) 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-14 16:36 -0500
  Re: search nearest to elements in array (hash) Martin DeMello <martindemello@gmail.com> - 2011-05-14 16:30 -0500
  Re: search nearest to elements in array (hash) "Mateus .." <excanoe@gmail.com> - 2011-05-15 01:33 -0500

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