CIT 383: Administrative Scripting Flow Control and Arrays CIT 383: Administrative Scripting

CIT 383: Administrative Scripting Topics Boolean Expressions Conditionals While Loops Creating Arrays Indexing Arrays Array Methods Iterators CIT 383: Administrative Scripting

CIT 383: Administrative Scripting What are true and false? false is false, the one member of the FalseClass nil, the one member of NilClass true is true, the one member of the TrueClass anything that’s not false, including 0, “”, NaN,... CIT 383: Administrative Scripting

CIT 383: Administrative Scripting Comparison Operators Binary operators that return true or false. == equals != not equals > greater than >= greater than or equal to < less than <= less than or equal to CIT 383: Administrative Scripting

CIT 383: Administrative Scripting Boolean Operators Operate on Boolean values. ! not not not (lower precedence) && and and and (lower precedence) || or or or (lower precedence) CIT 383: Administrative Scripting

CIT 383: Administrative Scripting Boolean Expressions x == 0 y > 1 z <= 5 x == 0 && y > 1 x == 0 && y > 1 || z <= 5 is_x_zero = x == 0 big_y = y > 2**16 is_x_zero && big_y CIT 383: Administrative Scripting

CIT 383: Administrative Scripting Conditionals if statement if statement with else clause elsif if expressions unless statement post-conditionals case statement CIT 383: Administrative Scripting

CIT 383: Administrative Scripting if statement expr code expression true false if expression code end expr color = hilight x%2 == 0 true false if x % 2 == 0 color = hilight end CIT 383: Administrative Scripting

CIT 383: Administrative Scripting Differences from Java Parentheses not required around expression expression begins after if and space expression ends with newline If statement must be terminated by an end There is no punctuation like Java’s braces. CIT 383: Administrative Scripting

CIT 383: Administrative Scripting if statement with else if expression code1 else code2 end true false expression code1 code2 CIT 383: Administrative Scripting

Multiple conditionals with elsif if expression1 code1 elsif expression2 code2 . elsif expressionN codeN else code end if x == 1 name = “one” elsif x == 2 name = “two” elsif x == 3 name = “three” elsif x == 4 name = “four” else name = “lots” end CIT 383: Administrative Scripting

CIT 383: Administrative Scripting if expressions Ruby has no statements, only expressions. Everything returns a value, even if it’s nil. if returns the value of the last expression evaluated. Example: name = if x == 1 then “one” elsif x == 2 then “two” elsif x == 3 then “three” elsif x == 4 then “four” else “many” end CIT 383: Administrative Scripting

CIT 383: Administrative Scripting unless statement unless expression code end true expression false code expr unless expression code1 else code2 end CIT 383: Administrative Scripting

CIT 383: Administrative Scripting Post-conditionals Pre-conditional form if expression then code end Equivalent post-conditional form code if expression Examples puts message if debug > 1 puts message if !quiet && verbose CIT 383: Administrative Scripting

Equivalent if statement Case statement Case statement Equivalent if statement name = case when x == 1 then “one” else “many” end name = if x == 1 then “one” elsif x == 2 then “two” elsif x == 3 then “three” elsif x == 4 then “four” else “many” end CIT 383: Administrative Scripting

Alternate case statement format name = case x when 1 then “one” when 2 then “two” when 3 then “three” when 4 then “four” else “many” end CIT 383: Administrative Scripting

CIT 383: Administrative Scripting while loop while expression code end false expression true code expr x = 0 while x < 10 puts x x = x + 1 end expr puts x x = x + 1 x < 10 true false x = 0 CIT 383: Administrative Scripting

CIT 383: Administrative Scripting until loop until expression code end true expression false code expr x = 0 until x > 10 puts x x = x + 1 end x = 0 true x > 10 false expr puts x x = x + 1 CIT 383: Administrative Scripting

CIT 383: Administrative Scripting Arrays in Ruby a = [10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60] a[0] 10 20 a[1] 30 a[2] a[3] 40 a[4] 50 a[5] 60 a[-1] CIT 383: Administrative Scripting

CIT 383: Administrative Scripting Arrays of Strings Define the same way as arrays of integers a = [‘spam’, ‘and’, ‘eggs’, ‘for’, ‘breakfast’] Alternative syntax for strings w/o spaces: a = %w[spam and eggs for breakfast] a = %w|spam and eggs for breakfast| %W works like double quoted strings a = [“\t”, “\n”, “\r”] a = %W(\t \n \r) CIT 383: Administrative Scripting

CIT 383: Administrative Scripting Creating Empty Arrays Use the [] notation a = [] Create like any other object a = Array.new Similar to str = “” str = String.new CIT 383: Administrative Scripting

Arrays of Different Types Ruby arrays can have data of different types a=[1,2.718,‘a string’,“\t”,[3,4]] Use like any other array a[0] == 1 a[1] == 2.718 a[2] == ‘a string’ a[3] == “\t” a[4] == [3, 4] CIT 383: Administrative Scripting

CIT 383: Administrative Scripting Indexing Arrays Single indexes a[n] is nth element from beginning starting at 0 a[-n] is nth element from end starting at -1 Double indexes (slicing) a[0,1] == a[0] a[0,2] == [ a[0], a[1] ] a[1,3] == [ a[1], a[2], a[3] ] a[-2, 2] == [ a[-2], a[-1] ] CIT 383: Administrative Scripting

CIT 383: Administrative Scripting Index Assignments Single index a[n] = 5 sets nth element to be 5 If a[n] isn’t already defined, extends array to be long enough to have an nth element. Double index a[0,2] = [10,20] sets first two elements to 10,20 a[0,0] = [1,2,3] inserts 3 elements at beginning a[0,2] = [] deletes first two elements of array CIT 383: Administrative Scripting

CIT 383: Administrative Scripting Array Operations Concatenation a = [1,2,3] + [4,5] # [1,2,3,4,5] a = a + [6,7,8] # [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8] Subtraction [1,2,3,4,5,6] – [2,3,4] # [1,5,6] Append a = [] a << 1 # [1] a << 2 << 3 # [1, 2,3] a << [4,5,6] # [1,2,3,[4,5,6]] CIT 383: Administrative Scripting

CIT 383: Administrative Scripting Array Operations Union: | Concatenates then removes duplicates. Intersection: & Array of elements in both arrays, no duplicates. Examples a = [1,1,2,2,3,3,4] b = [5,5,4,4,3,3,2] a | b # [1,2,3,4,5] b | a # [5,4,3,2,1] a & b # [2,3,4] b & a # [4,3,2] CIT 383: Administrative Scripting

CIT 383: Administrative Scripting Array Methods reverse Reverses order of array elements. sort Sorts array elements from lowest to highest All array elements must be of same type. sort! Previous methods return altered array. Methods ending in ! change array in place. CIT 383: Administrative Scripting

Using Arrays w/o Indexing We often need just a list of items to: Add items from the list. Remove items from the list. Perform an action for each item of the list. We don’t need to deal with indices since The 5th item isn’t special. We just want to add, remove, or do something for each item of the list. Leaves only one choice: add and remove from End of array (push and pop) Beginning of array (shift and unshift) CIT 383: Administrative Scripting

CIT 383: Administrative Scripting Push and pop push adds an element to end of array. 10 a[0] a[0] 10 20 20 a.push(40) 30 30 a[-1] 40 a[-1] CIT 383: Administrative Scripting

CIT 383: Administrative Scripting Push and pop pop removes an element from end of array. 10 a[0] a[0] 10 20 20 x = a.pop 30 a[-1] 30 a[-1] 40 x == 40 CIT 383: Administrative Scripting

CIT 383: Administrative Scripting Shift and unshift unshift adds an element to start of array. 5 a[0] a[0] 10 10 20 a.unshift(5) 20 30 a[-1] 30 a[-1] CIT 383: Administrative Scripting

CIT 383: Administrative Scripting Shift and unshift shift removes an element f/ start of array. 10 a[0] a[0] 5 20 10 x = a.shift 30 a[-1] 20 a[-1] 30 x == 5 CIT 383: Administrative Scripting

CIT 383: Administrative Scripting The each iterator Each executes code for each item of array Assigns current element to |variable| Executes block of code. Sets current element to next element. Example: langs = %w(python ruby scheme) langs.each do |language| puts “#{language} is good.” end CIT 383: Administrative Scripting

CIT 383: Administrative Scripting The each iterator array.each do |var| code end n = 0 var = array[n] code false is n last element? n = n + 1 true CIT 383: Administrative Scripting

CIT 383: Administrative Scripting References Michael Fitzgerald, Learning Ruby, O’Reilly, 2008. David Flanagan and Yukihiro Matsumoto, The Ruby Programming Language, O’Reilly, 2008. Hal Fulton, The Ruby Way, 2nd edition, Addison-Wesley, 2007. Dave Thomas with Chad Fowler and Andy Hunt, Programming Ruby, 2nd edition, Pragmatic Programmers, 2005. CIT 383: Administrative Scripting