From 7a936a2e2bd9537240dce6c92bc0fc912377f237 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Danielle Metzner <danimetzner@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2018 07:26:40 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Finished the array equals method

---
 lib/array_equals.rb | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/array_equals.rb b/lib/array_equals.rb
index 58e8369..6627216 100644
--- a/lib/array_equals.rb
+++ b/lib/array_equals.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,41 @@
 # Determines if the two input arrays have the same count of elements
 # and the same integer values in the same exact order
 def array_equals(array1, array2)
-  raise NotImplementedError
+  #raise NotImplementedError
+#Check for the nil class first because array methods will not work
+  if array1 == nil || array2 == nil
+    if array1 == nil && array2 == nil
+      return true
+    else
+      return false
+    end
+  end
+
+#Check for empty arrays
+  if array1[0]==nil && array2[0]==nil
+    return true
+  elsif (array1[0] == nil) || (array2[0] == nil)
+    return false
+  end
+
+#Now we know that at least both arrays have elements we can determine their length
+#and look at each element to see if each index is the same. 
+  len1 = array1.length
+  len2 = array2.length
+
+  if len2 != len1
+    return false
+  end
+
+
+  len1.times do |index|
+    if array1[index] != array2[index]
+      return false
+    end
+  end
+  return true
 end
+
+array1 = nil
+array2 = [10,20]
+puts array_equals(array1, array2)

From b8758902622a7e5512b26d341b3dd162fd514790 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Danielle Metzner <danimetzner@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2018 07:28:34 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Removed testing output at the end or array_equals.rb

---
 lib/array_equals.rb | 6 +-----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/array_equals.rb b/lib/array_equals.rb
index 6627216..522e056 100644
--- a/lib/array_equals.rb
+++ b/lib/array_equals.rb
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ def array_equals(array1, array2)
   end
 
 #Now we know that at least both arrays have elements we can determine their length
-#and look at each element to see if each index is the same. 
+#and look at each element to see if each index is the same.
   len1 = array1.length
   len2 = array2.length
 
@@ -35,7 +35,3 @@ def array_equals(array1, array2)
   end
   return true
 end
-
-array1 = nil
-array2 = [10,20]
-puts array_equals(array1, array2)