From: Daniel Sheppard <daniels@...>
Date: 2007-09-26T16:05:28+09:00
Subject: Re: merge two arrays into a hash

> key = [ "1", "2", "3"]
> value = [ "a", "b" ]
> 
> into:
> 
> myhash = {'1' => 'a' , '2' => 'b' , '3' => ''}

For the special case where key and value do not contain arrays:

Hash[*key.zip(value).flatten]

For the general case:

myhash = {}
key.zip(value) {|a,b| myhash[a] = b }

Dan