ten_things = "Apples Oranges Crows Telephone Light Sugar" puts "Wait there are not 10 things in that list. Let's fix that." stuff = ten_things.split(" ") more_stuff = ["Day", "Night", "Song", "Frisbee", "Corn", "Banana", "Girl", "Boy"] # using math to make sure there's 10 items while stuff.length != 10 next_one = more_stuff.pop puts "Adding: #{next_one}" stuff.push(next_one) puts "There are #{stuff.length} items now." end puts "There we go: #{stuff}" puts "Let's do some things with stuff." puts stuff[1] puts stuff[-1] # whoah! fancy puts stuff.pop puts stuff.join(" ") puts stuff[3..5].join("#") puts stuff