From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2005-12-09T12:44:55+09:00
Subject: Re: ordered/sorted hash

On Fri, 9 Dec 2005, robertj wrote:

> is there anywhere a class that does soemthing
> akin to java.util.SortedMap? that is sorting
> and iterating over the hash in the order of its
> keys.
>
> i had a look into facets dictionary but that does
> only preserve the ordering of insertion which
> is not what i want.
>
> any other suggestions?
>
> ciao robertj

   harp:~ > cat a.rb
   require "alib"
   include ALib

   oh = OrderedHash::new
   oh["first"] = 42
   oh["second"] = "forty-two"

   puts "---"
   oh.each{|k,v| puts "#{ k } : #{ v }"}

   harp:~ > ruby a.rb
   ---
   first : 42
   second : forty-two


-a
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