From: Tomas Brixi <brixi@...>
Date: 2001-09-04T16:49:35+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:20842] Re: modify hash during iteration

Dave Thomas wrote:

>Tomas Brixi <brixi@unicode.cz> writes:
>
>>Hello
>>
>>I have a question to following piece of code
>>-----------------
>>h = Hash.new
>>#assign some data
>>
>>h.each do |pair|
>>    h[pair[0]] = new_value
>>end
>>-----------------
>>
>>is this the right way or are there better ways to do this
>>
>
>I'm not sure what you're asking about. If it's the pair[0] call, then
>you could do
>
>  h = {  "cat" => 1, "dog" => 99 }
>
>  h.each do |key, |
>    h[key] += 1
>  end
>
The question was about modifying the value of the  key (pair[0])


Tom