Get Every Nth Member Of A Ruby Array

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class Array
  def every(n)
    select {|x| index(x) % n == 0}
  end
  def every_other
    every 2
  end
end

Now you can do things like:

[1, 2, 3, 4].every_other
=> [1, 3]

["fish", "hesitantly", "shampoo", "terminal", "sharp", "yarn", "golfer"].every 3
=> ["fish", "terminal", "golfer"]

Tags:
• Array
• Ruby