From: EdUarDo <eduardo.yanezNOSPAM@...>
Date: 2005-09-17T00:26:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Hash table questions

>> @position.post = :DC
>> puts coords.has_key?(@position.post.to_s)
>> puts coords.has_key?(@position.post)
>> puts coords.has_key?('DC')
>>
>> Why I can't access 'DC' key with @position.post?
> 
> 
> I suspect it's because the DC key had trailing whitespace, probably a  
> newline character.  Try changing the reads to something like:
> 
>         pos = file.readline.strip
>         line = file.readline.strip
> 

It works fine, thank you.

Now I get a true answer when I ask:

puts coords.has_key?(@position.post.to_s)
puts coords.has_key?('DC')

but not when

puts coords.has_key?(@position.post)

is this correct? Do I need to do .to_s to retrieve data from hash?