From: Jeremy Wells <jwells@...>
Date: 2006-09-27T23:13:05+09:00
Subject: Re: [newbie]  Hash to String ?

Josselin wrote:
> I need to produce this kind of result
>
> l = { "January" => "1"}, {"February => "2"}, { "March" => "3"}, .... }
>
> so I wrote
>
> h  = (Array.new(13) {|i| Hash[Date::MONTHNAMES[i], i.to_s]}).slice(1,12)
> which results in :
> [{"January"=>"1"}, {"February"=>"2"}, {"March"=>"3"}, {"April"=>"4"}, 
> {"May"=>"5"}, {"June"=>"6"}, {"July"=>"7"}, {"August"=>"8"}, 
> {"September"=>"9"}, {"October"=>"10"}, {"November"=>"11"}, 
> {"December"=>"12"}]
>
> but I cannot write :         l =  { h }  it's wrong... Hash cannot be 
> converted like that..
> what should I write instead ?
>
months = Date::MONTHNAMES.compact.collect{|m| [m, 
Date::MONTHNAMES.index(m)]}