From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2004-08-21T04:47:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Neat trick for Steckerboard of Enigma needed...

Hal Fulton wrote:
> 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(""))


Haha, I'm being very stupid today.

      hash = Hash[*string.split("")]

Now THAT should work.


Hal