From: Todd Burch <promos@...>
Date: 2007-08-15T06:39:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Class Instantiation

jantzeno wrote:
> I have a few questions about class instantiation.
> 
> Say I have a class:
> 
> class Person
> attr_accessor :name, :age
> end
> 
> And an array:
> 
> names = ["john", "jane"]
> 
> Is it possible to instantiate a class using a string from the array so
> I get something equal to:
> 
> john = Person.new
> jane = Person.new
> 
> 
> v/r,

You can, but it might be better to do something like this if you have 
lots of names in your names array:

people = Array.new ;

names.each_with_index {|n,i|
   people[i] = Person.new ;
   people[i].name = n ;
}

Todd
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