From: "Peña, Botp" <botp@...>
Date: 2007-10-30T12:18:37+09:00
Subject: Re: find the closest items in an array to a given value.

From: trebor777 [mailto:mrobert@trebor777.net] 
# a = myhash.keys.sort[value-0.05..value+0.05]
# then i just use 
# myhash[a[x]]

can you test without hash?

~> a
=> [1, 1.25, 1.9, 2, 3, 3.5]
~> val
=> 1.85
~> a[val-0.5..val+0.5]
=> [1.25, 1.9]
~> a.slice (val-0.5..val+0.5)
=> [1.25, 1.9]

kind regards -botp