From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2006-07-08T01:12:07+09:00
Subject: Re: hyphens in variable names

2006/7/7, Paul Hepworth <paul@hepworthinc.com>:
> Hello,
>
> I am new to Ruby and have an issue with a xmlsimple object resulting
> from a 3rd party webservice.
>
> The xml has nodes that have hyphens (-) in the names. When I try to
> access various hashes using the object variables I get errors telling
> that the variable doesn't exists. I realize that the ruby syntax doesnot
> like hyphens in variable names, how do I get around this?
>
> Example XML:
>
> <object>
>  <tree-lists>
>    <tree-list>
>    ...
>    </tree-list>
>    ...
>  </tree-lists>
> </object>
>
> Example Ruby :
>
> for tlist in object.tree-lists
>  ...
> end
>
> Error would be:
>
> NoMethodError in TreeController#importproject
> undefined method `tree' for #<TreeLib::Record:0x39171e8>

Either use method send or use another tool to work with XML or use
another way to access objects (if this lib provides one, maybe
object["tee-list"] or object[:tree-list]).

Kind regards

robert
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Paul
>
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