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Array#drop

You can easily remove the first elements from an array in ruby without mutating the array by using drop

array = [ 1, 2, 3 ]
array.drop(1) # => [ 2, 3 ]
array # => [ 1, 2, 3 ]

array.drop(2) # => [ 3 ]
array # => [ 1, 2, 3 ]
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