From: Tobias DiPasquale <anany@...>
Date: 2001-12-18T02:30:06+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:28808] Re: hashes created dynamically

Schlienger, Marc wrote:

> [ruby-talk:28800] hashes created dynamically
> Hello,
> 
> does anyone know how to create hashes at runtime?
> 
> Let's say I have an array of strings (size unknown a priori). Each of these
> strings should be a hash key. Values for the keys will also be strings but
> are not known until runtime.
> 
> /Marco
> 


<snip>


h = {}  #or, h = Hash.new
...
aKey = "a"
aValue = "b"

h[aKey] = aValue
...

</snip>

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