syntax - Automatic counter in Ruby for each?

Question

I want to use a for-each and a counter:

i=0
for blah in blahs
    puts i.to_s + " " + blah
    i+=1
end

Is there a better way to do it?

Note: I don't know if blahs is an array or a hash, but having to do blahs[i] wouldn't make it much sexier. Also I'd like to know how to write i++ in Ruby.

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Technically, Matt's and Squeegy's answer came in first, but I'm giving best answer to paradoja so spread around the points a bit on SO. Also his answer had the note about versions, which is still relevant (as long as my Ubuntu 8.04 is using Ruby 1.8.6).

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Should've used puts "#{i} #{blah}" which is a lot more succinct.

Answer 1

As people have said, you can use

each_with_index

but if you want indices with an iterator different to "each" (for example, if you want to map with an index or something like that) you can concatenate enumerators with the each_with_index method, or simply use with_index:

blahs.each_with_index.map { |blah, index| something(blah, index)}

blahs.map.with_index { |blah, index| something(blah, index) }

This is something you can do from ruby 1.8.7 and 1.9.