From: dblack@...
Date: 2006-03-02T05:31:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Hash.from_zipped_array

Hi --

On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:

> it's pretty dang easy to do already:
>
>    harp:~ > cat a.rb
>    animal, sound = %w[dog cat bird], %w[woof meow cheep]
>    require 'yaml' and y Hash[*animal.zip(sound).flatten]
>
>
>    harp:~ > ruby a.rb
>    ---
>    cat: meow
>    bird: cheep
>    dog: woof

A good opportunity for my annual plug for the flattenx extension :-)
(On RAA, still, I think.)  It lets you flatten by any number of
levels, so that you can use that technique even with nested arrays.


David

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