From: Harry Truax <htruax@...>
Date: 2004-08-14T04:55:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Question: A method for summing several variables

Lennon,

Thanks for the quick reply. Unfortunately, I am required to use the box
variables (box1_1, box12_24,...etc.).

Harry

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lennon Day-Reynolds" <rcoder@gmail.com>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 3:40 PM
Subject: Re: Question: A method for summing several variables


> Harry,
>
> The natural way to handlie this kind of problem in Ruby would be to
> store the form field values in a two-dimensional array, rather than as
> specially-named variables. That way, you can use the built-in
> iteration functionality that Ruby arrays support to loop through
> fields, total them, etc.
>
> I'd recommend looking at the "Containers, Blocks, and Iterators"
> chapter of the Pickaxe book
> (http://rubycentral.com/book/tut_containers.html) to see how this kind
> of object collection is handled in "idiomatic" Ruby code.
>
> If you need more specific help, just let us know.
>
> Lennon
>
>