From: touch freedom <stillflame@...>
Date: 2001-05-11T19:42:04+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14988] Re: Array -> Hash convertion?

the %w() thingy in ruby does the same as the qw() thingy in perl, and you can populate your new hash if you declare it like so:

a_hash = Hash.[](*%w(key value etc. &c.))

kinda weird, kinda hacked, but it'll work like you want it to, and i couldn't get anything else to.  there might still be a better way to do it out there (?) ^_^

Martin Chase

-----Original Message-----
>Sorry to raise another newbie question,
>
>Coming from a perl world, I like to write something like
>
>	%hash = qw( foo led bar tender )
>
>and have a hash initialized to 
>
>	{foo => led, bar => tender}
>
>Is anything like this possible in Ruby?
>
>Renald

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