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Ruby program to return an array from the user-defined function

Last Updated : December 15, 2025

Problem Solution

In this program, we will create a user-defined function. Here we will create an array and return the created array. Then we will print returned array.

Program/Source Code

The source code to return an array from the user-defined function is given below. The given program is compiled and executed successfully.

# Ruby program to return an array from 
# the user define function

def GetArray()
    arr = Array(1..5);   
    return arr;
end

myArr = GetArray();

i=0;

print "Array elements: \n";

while i<myArr.length
    print myArr[i]," ";
    i = i + 1;
end

Output

Array elements: 
1 2 3 4 5

Explanation

In the above program, we created the function GetArray(). In the GetArray() function, we created the array of 5 integers and return the created array. Then we printed the array elements.

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