From: Jamis Buck <jgb3@...>
Date: 2004-08-21T04:50:05+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(""))

Hal,

This one still isn't working for me. I keep getting an empty hash back. 
Isn't the parameter to Hash.new used as the return value for when a 
query misses?

- Jamis

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