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Ruby program to remove the last given number of items from the array

Ruby Example: Write a program to remove the last given number of items from the array.
Submitted by Nidhi, on January 10, 2022

Problem Solution:

In this program, we will create an array of integers with few elements. Then we will remove the last given number of items from the array using the pop() method.

Program/Source Code:

The source code to remove the last given number of items from the array is given below. The given program is compiled and executed successfully.

# Ruby program to remove last given number 
# of items from array

arr = [100,101,102,103,104];
item = arr.pop(2);

print "Array: ",arr,"\n";
print "Removed items: ",item,"\n";

Output:

Array: [100, 101, 102]
Removed items: [103, 104]

Explanation:

In the above program, we created an array of integers with few elements. Then we removed the last given number of items from the array using the pop() method and assigned the removed items into the item variable. After that, we printed the removed items and updated the array.