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Ruby arrays are integer–indexed arrays starting at position 0, rather like Java or C. Negative values can be used to retrieve values from the array from the end, so −1 would show the last element of an array, and −2 would show the second from last element.

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Clements, M. (2014). Arrays. In: Ruby Quick Syntax Reference. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-6569-6_4

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