From: Siep Korteling <s.korteling@...>
Date: 2008-02-16T02:13:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Which data-type can I use for this task?

Adna rim wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a little question. I have a list here like this:
> 
> street
> house
> person
> age
> 
> street
> house
> person
> age
> 
> street
> house
> person
> age
> ....
> 
> Now I wanna store them in a data type like an array. I tied this here:
> 
>   information = [Street=[],House=[],Person=[],Age=[]]
> 
> but If I wanna now fill it like
> 
>   information.Street << firstentry
> 
> I always get an error telling undefined method Street... With which
> datatype do I best realize this?

I prefer a Struct is for this.

row=Struct.new(:street,:house)
d=[]
d<<row.new("Baker street", "14b")
d<<row.new("Sesame street","nope") # this should be in a loop
puts d[1].house

regards,

Siep
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