From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2006-11-15T23:20:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Assoc method on large array

On 15.11.2006 14:49, gregarican wrote:
> I figured out this one glitch. Pilot error on my part. Some values of
> this array element were floats while others were strings. I had to
> convert the string values to floats for the comparison sort block to
> factor everything correctly. That is taken care of. But I still never
> found a way around invoking the Array's assoc method on an SQL result
> set. But piping the set into a new array isn't the end of the world. It
> works and my script does now as well. Thanks for the feedback though!

Why don't you let the DB do the selection?  Why don't you use a Hash? 
How did you verify that it's an Array of Arrays?  Did you just look at 
the output of inspect or did you actually invoke #class?

I am not sure that you actually found a good solution here.

Kind regards

	robert