From: Keith Tom <keith.tom@...>
Date: 2007-03-31T02:15:21+09:00
Subject: Re: newbie, hash or 2dArry

Zac Elston wrote:
> I'm lost or just tired from guessing.
>
> I need to make an hash I can call by hostname as the key and some random
> amount of data after that as the values.  now a hash works great for 1
> to 1 maps (h[serverX] ==> result) but I need
> h[serverX][query|result|time]
>
> so how would I write a hash that would give me access to
>
> in:
> h[host_to_query]["query"]] = @query
> h[host_to_query]["result"]] = queryhost(host_to_query,@query)
>
> out:
> for h.each |host| puts h[[host]["result"]]
>
> thanks
>
> zaq
>
>   
Hey Zac,

Would a nested hash do the trick?

hash = { :host1 => {
    :query => @query,
    :result => queryhost(...),
    :time => time} }


then for output, you'd do something like
for hash.each_value do |value| puts value[:result] end

Hopefully that does the trick,
Keith