From: Peter Szinek <peter@...>
Date: 2007-01-22T18:10:27+09:00
Subject: Re: conditional variable assignment from array

Josselin wrote:
> one of my methods receives  a sort parameter either as
> 
> params =>  {"sort"=>{"criteria"=>"1"} }
> OR
> params =>  {"sort"=>"1"}
> 
> presently,  I assign a variable @sc as follows :
> 
> params[:sort].nil? ? @sc = "1" : @sc = params[:sort][:criteria]
> 
> how can I assign @sc to params[:sort][:criteria] OR params[:sort]  
> whatever received... ?

You could try something like

stuff = params[:sort]
@sc = stuff.is_a? String ? stuff :  stuff[:criteria] unless stuff == nil

Maybe I did not understand your question properly, if this does not seem 
to work, please try to elaborate...

Peter

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