From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2004-08-21T04:45:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Neat trick for Steckerboard of Enigma needed...

Hal Fulton wrote:
> 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(/./))

Ah, no, sorry. Make that:

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



Hal