From: Florian Gross <flgr@...>
Date: 2004-09-18T03:39:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Accessing Hash elements in sorted order?

Chris wrote:

> cgi = CGI.new
> cgi.params.sort.each { |pair| puts "#{pair[0]}=#{pair[1]}" }

One small suggestion:

cgi.params.sort.each do |(key, value)|
   puts "#{key}=#{value}"
end

> Is this *really* the best way to access the elements of Hash in sorted 
> order?  I suppose, if at base, this is the way to do it, I could extend 
> Hash to abstract this...

There has been some discussion going on whether Ruby's Hash should be 
sorted by default on this list recently.

Regards,
Florian Gross