From: "Peña, Botp" <botp@...>
Date: 2007-07-19T17:17:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie looking for help: Determining Gender

From: Peter Seebach [mailto:seebs@seebs.net] 
# >sexCheckH = Hash.new
# >sexCheckH = {  "m" => "male",
# >               "f" => "female"
# >            }
# 
# It seems to me that you have just replaced your empty 
# Hash.new object with a
# brand new object.

argggh, i was hoping that the op would catch that first :)
while typing code, i was thinking whether showing a hash will complicate the strategy to his looping problem ... so i figure how to type the hash so it looks simple, and it went like...

x=Hash.new ...  hmmm, no
x={}
x['m'] = 'male' ...   hmmm, no, change mind again...
x = { 'm' => 'male', ... }  yes

next time, i'll just type directly without thinking :))

thanks for the heads up and kind regards -botp