From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2006-10-13T23:05:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Multiple values for the same key in a Hash

On 12.10.2006 20:22, Dominic Son wrote:
> Hi. There's got to be an easy way to do this.
> 
> I simply want multiple iteams (etc, price, quantity, and name) appended 
> to a key..
> 
> There's got to be a simple way (...right?)

Like this?

 >> 11:09:28 [~]: irbs
 >> require 'pp'
=> true
 >> Entry = Struct.new(:price, :quantity, :name)
=> Entry
 >> h = Hash.new {|h,k| h[k] = Entry.new}
=> {}
 >> h[:foo].price = 10
=> 10
 >> h[:bar].name = "bar"
=> "bar"
 >> h[:foo].name = "foo"
=> "foo"
 >> pp h
{:bar=>#<struct Entry price=nil, quantity=nil, name="bar">,
  :foo=>#<struct Entry price=10, quantity=nil, name="foo">}
=> nil

	robert