From: Chris <ceo@...>
Date: 2004-09-18T04:14:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Accessing Hash elements in sorted order?

Florian Gross wrote:
> 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
> 

This is *exactly* what I was looking for.  Figured there had to be a way 
to access the key/value directly as above.

>> 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.
> 

I would vote in favor of it.

-ceo