From: Renald Buter <buter@...>
Date: 2001-05-11T20:42:00+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14991] Re: Array -> Hash convertion?

On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 01:10:00PM +0100, ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org wrote:
> On Fri, 11 May 2001, Tammo Freese wrote:
> 
> > At 19:23 11.05.01 +0900, Renald Buter wrote:
> > >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?
> >
> > hash = Hash[foo, led, bar, tender]
> 
> That's if foo etc. are variables.  In the Perl example they're
> strings.  So you'd have to do:
> 
>   hash = Hash[*%w{ foo led bar tender }]
> 
> or equivalent.
> 
> There's been a lot of array-to-hash-to-array discussion here.  A
> search for "to_h" at
> <http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/ruby/ruby-talk/index.shtml> will turn up
> a bunch.
> 
> 
> David

I see. Well, I kinda expected something like your RCR in [ruby-talk:11195]
to exist. But that's left to 1.8??

But your suggestion (and the others alike, BTW) will do the trick for me!

Thanks all,

Renald