From: Johannes Friestad <johannes.friestad@...>
Date: 2005-12-02T18:18:57+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby one-liner needed

I'm sure there are many ways to do it, here's one:

a=[3,4,5,6]
b=%w{three four five six seven}
res={}
a.length.times {|i| break if i>=b.length; res[a[i]]=b[i]; }

It handles the situation where either array is shorter than the other.

jf

On 12/2/05, Kev Jackson <kevin.jackson@it.fts-vn.com> wrote:
> Here's one taht I know is possible (I'm sure I've seen it somewhere before)
>
> I have 2 arrays and I'd like to change them into a Hash
> stuff = ["1", "2", "3"]
> Item.column_names.each { |column_name| new_item[column_name] = stuff[?] }
>
> The problem is how to index within the block to move along the stuff
> array, and how to deal with the fact that most of the time the stuff
> array is shorter than the column_names array
>
> I'm sure using collect, map of something else ruby-ish that this is more
> than possible, but I can't find a solution right now
>
> Kev
>
>


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