From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2007-09-26T17:09:09+09:00
Subject: Re: merge two arrays into a hash

Hi --

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Daniel Sheppard wrote:

>> 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]

And in 1.9 you can do: flatten(1)


David

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