From: Ryan <ryan@...>
Date: 2001-11-07T07:27:31+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:24474] Re: Range in Hash array?


> > I'd like to be able to do something like:
> > {1..100=>"a",101..300=>"c", 500..1000=>"r"}

Not sure if this does what you want, but it's a possibility:

h=[]
h.fill('a', 1..100)
h.fill('c', 101..300)
h.fill('r', 500..1000)

which would create an array of these elements, filled per
the range given. this would actually read exactly the same
way, i.e. h[5] == 'a' and h[301] == nil

Ryan