Parallel Assignment and Ranges

Question

I think the answer is simply, "no you can't do that," but my thoughts are pretty much always wrong about Ruby.

I'm trying to do this in Ruby

city, state, zip = (0..2)

this results in city being a Range and the others being nil, which is not what I want. Is there any way to do this?

Answer 1

Yes

city, state, zip = *(0..2)

Answer 2

With splat operator

city, state, zip = *(0..2)

With cast to array

city, state, zip = (0..2).to_a