I have an array like this: [7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
What's the simplest way to return each item in the array from position 6 until 0 where the resulting array looks like: [1,2,3,4,5,6,7]
This positions in the array can be dynamic, for example passing in 4 and 9 should return [11,12,1,2,3,4]
I'm wondering if there's a method that accomplishes this in Rails api.
Thanks in advance
EDIT
Let's assume that no negative numbers, so doing array[2..-2]
wont work.
Array#splice
almost works for this, but if the second position is less than the first, it returns nil
.
def foo a, min, max
a.rotate(min).first((max - min) % a.length + 1)
end
a = [7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
foo(a, 6, 0) # => [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
foo(a, 4, 9) # => [11, 12, 1, 2, 3, 4]
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