From: Jon Garvin <jgarvin.lists@...>
Date: 2006-08-09T04:02:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Simple looping question

How about looping through the list backwards?

Aqua Fina wrote:
> I have some data in a YAML file that looks like:
>
> 20060712: [9.174, 131452]
> 20060719: [9.466, 131805]
> 20060727: [9.197, 132150]
> 20060807: [9.778, 132540]
>
> It represents dates, gallons of gas, and mileage, respectively.
>
> I want to loop through and print out something like:
>
> The W gallons of gas purchased on X lasted Y days. The mileage was Z 
> miles per gallon.
>
> What is the best way to do this? I need the next date from the next 
> entry in the hash, so a simple .each won't work. I can't quite wrap my 
> head around this problem.
>
> Thanks.
>
>