From: shawn bright <nephish@...>
Date: 2008-02-07T12:23:20+09:00
Subject: Re: how to put hash values in function

wow, thanks, very handy, and it did work.
i thought that i had tried this earlier, but i guess i had something
else wrong earlier.

great info, thanks Jano.

sk

On Feb 6, 2008 9:09 PM, Jano Svitok <jan.svitok@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Feb 7, 2008 4:08 AM, Jano Svitok <jan.svitok@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Feb 7, 2008 2:23 AM, shawn bright <nephish@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hey there,
> > >
> > > i have an example function from documentation.
> > >
> > > it looks like this
> > >
> > > do_something(SomeValue,  2 => 'value', 3 => 'value', 4 => 'value',
> > > someVar, someOtherVar)
> >
> > This doesn't work in ruby 1.8 - the hash arguments must be the last
> > ones (maybe there's an exception, but I don't remember now).
> > > now if i have a hash that has more or less values than the 3 shown
> > > above, how could i pass those to the function where the index => value
> > > is placed into the function ?
> > >
> > > exp:
> > > if i have   myHash = {2 => 'value',  3 => 'value', 4 => 'value'}
> > >
> > > how could i put these values in the array ?
> >
> > If you call do_something(SomeValue, myHash) it's the same as
> > do_something(SomeValue, 2 => 'value',  3 => 'value', 4 => 'value')
> >
> > you can check it yourself using
>
> def do_something(*args)
>         p args
> end
>
> (I've hit enter too soon...)
>
> Jano
>
>