From: Harold Hausman <hhausman@...>
Date: 2007-08-11T02:56:12+09:00
Subject: Re: What the...? Hash does not have a key it really should have!

On 8/10/07, Joshua Muheim <forum@josh.ch> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> irb(main):001:0>     conversion_classes = {
> irb(main):002:1*       'Music labels' => 'MusicLabel',
> irb(main):003:1*       'Music artists' => 'MusicArtist',
> irb(main):004:1*       'Online Shops' => 'OnlineShop',
> irb(main):005:1*       'Psy Communities' => 'PsyCommunity',
> irb(main):006:1*     }
> => {"Psy Communities"=>"PsyCommunity", "Music labels"=>"MusicLabel",
> "Online Shops"=>"OnlineShop", "Music artists"=>"MusicArtist"}
> irb(main):007:0> conversion_classes.has_key? "Music Labels"
> => false
>
> What the heck is wrong here? I'm feeling quite blind at the moment, lol!
>

You're creating the key with a lowercase 'l' and trying to read it out
with a capital 'L'...

Is that the blunder?

hth,
-Harold