From: Hammed Malik <hammed@...>
Date: 2006-08-14T01:09:26+09:00
Subject: Re: How to update nested Hashes?

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Thanks David!

On 8/14/06, dblack@wobblini.net <dblack@wobblini.net> wrote:
>
> Hi --
>
> On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, Hammed Malik wrote:
>
> > Given two nested Hashes, is there an easy way to update one with the
> other?
> >
> > a = {:top => {:foo => {:a => 1}, :bar => {:b => 2}}}
> > b = {:top => {:bar => {:c => 3}}}
> >
> > what I'd like is
> >
> > a.nested_update(b) => {:top => {:foo => {:a => 1}, :bar => {:c => 3}}}
>
> You could do something like:
>
>    def a.nested_update(b)
>      each_key {|k| self[k].update(b[k])}
>    end
>
>
> David
>
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