From: Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@...>
Date: 2005-10-17T07:27:43+09:00
Subject: Re: how to create a hash from 2 arrays?

On 10/17/05, Tiggerius <tiggerius@gmail.com> wrote:
> keys = ["1", "2", "3", "4", "5"]
> vals = ["a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f", "g"]
>
> I want h = {"1"=>"a", "2"=>"b", "3"=>"c", "4"=>"d", "5"=>"e"}
>
> right now I do it by:
>   for i in 0..keys.size-1
>     h[keys[i]]=vals[i]
>   end
>
> is there a ruby way, more slick way of doing this? Thanks.


Hash[*keys.zip(vals).flatten]
#=> {"1"=>"a", "2"=>"b", "3"=>"c", "4"=>"d", "5"=>"e"}


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Simon Strandgaard