From: Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@...>
Date: 2006-10-21T06:59:08+09:00
Subject: Re: multi dim array?

On 10/20/06, Gijs Nijholt <gijs.nijholt@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi (again),
>
> I have a multi-dimensional array.. walking through an incoming string
> like this:
>
> def translate(msg)
>   some_alphabet = [ ["a","A"], ["b","B"], ["c","C"], ["d","D"] ]
>   msg.split(//).inject("") { |result, char|
>     result += some_alphabet[2][1]
>   }
> end
>
> This replaces everything in msg with a "C", as it's the third one in the
> array.
> But I'm looking for a way to replace not by integer/index but by char,
> like:
>
> some_alphabet["c"][1]
>
> I hope you know what I mean.. I looked at at() and find() and scan() but
> neither seems to fit this task?
>

Does:
some_alphabet.detect {|e| e == "c"}[1]
..do what you're looking for?