Ruby Basic Exercises: Create a new string taking every other character starting with the first of a given string
Write a Ruby program to create a new string taking every other character starting with the first of a given string.
Ruby Code:
def string_test(str)
str1 = ""
str.split("").each_with_index do |char, index|
str1 += char unless index % 2 == 1
end
return str1
end
print string_test('abcdefgij'),"\n"
print string_test('abcdefg'),"\n"
print string_test('abcdef'),"\n"
print string_test('abc'),"\n"
print string_test('ab'),"\n"
Output:
acegj aceg ace ac a
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