From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2004-08-21T04:43:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Neat trick for Steckerboard of Enigma needed...

Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
>    So I get a string, for example "AGQTRXDF" into the simulator.
>    
>    Does anyone of the Ruby gurus here know a neat trick to convert
>    this into a hash of the form
>    
>    steckers={
> 		"A" => "G",
> 		"Q" => "T",
> 		"R" => "X"
> 		"D" => "F"
>    }    
>    
>    in "one turn"? I only know a very "unrubyish" way to do this in
>    single steps -- kinda "slow motion" programming... ;)

Would this work?

   hash = Hash.new(*string.split(/./))

Hal