From: Mark Hubbart <discordantus@...>
Date: 2005-10-23T09:40:49+09:00
Subject: Re: array in hash... argh!!

On 10/21/05, Jamis Buck <jamis@37signals.com> wrote:
> On Oct 21, 2005, at 1:26 PM, Marco wrote:
>
> > hello all.
> > i hope someone here can help me out. i really don't understand haw
> > to do this.
> > i have a hash like this:
>
> I'm always up for a good game of golf. :)

what? did I hear "golf"? :D

> > "movies"=>{
> >     "title"=>["ciccio", "test", "ciccio panza"],
> >     "id"=>["3", "4", "1"],
> >     "description"=>["1", "", "hey?"],
> >     "insert_date"=>["2005-10-19", "2005-10-20", "2005-10-18"]
> >  }

Not as short as some, but we gotta throw a short inject version in somewhere:

h.inject([]){|a,(k,s)|i=-1;s.map{|v|a[i+=1]||={};a[i][k]=v};a}

cheers,
Mark