From: Meino Christian Cramer <Meino.Cramer@...>
Date: 2004-08-21T05:07:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Neat trick for Steckerboard of Enigma needed...

From: Jamis Buck <jgb3@email.byu.edu>
Subject: Re: Neat trick for Steckerboard of Enigma needed...
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 04:50:05 +0900

> 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


  Together were are unbeatable,hahaha !  ;O)))
  
  What's about this:
  
     a="ABCDEFGHIJ"
     hash=Hash[*a.split(//)]
	 => {"K"=>"L", "A"=>"B", "C"=>"D", "E"=>"F", "G"=>"H", "I"=>"J"}

  (but what is this littele '*' good for ?)

  Thanks a lot for all your help!

  Ruby.use!
  Meino