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Ruby program to get the last item from the array

Last Updated : December 15, 2025

Problem Solution

In this program, we will create an array of integers with few elements. Then we will get the last item from the array using the last() method.

Program/Source Code

The source code to get the last item from the array is given below. The given program is compiled and executed successfully.

# Ruby program to get the last item 
# from the array

arr = [100,101,102,103,104];
item = arr.last();

print "Array: ",arr,"\n";
print "Last item: ",item,"\n";

Output

Array: [100, 101, 102, 103, 104]
Last item: 104

Explanation

In the above program, we created an array of integers with few elements. Then we got the last item from the array using the last() method and assigned the item into the item variable. After that, we printed the result.

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