From: Adam Akhtar Date: 2008-03-25T21:41:49+09:00 Subject: Re: hash of arrays - appending to one of the arrays > The most common idiom is: > > (hash[key] ||= []) << value > Thanks for the reply. Can I ask what these || mean..in this case do they mean OR??? does anyone have any good links on using the use of arrays with hashes in this manner? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.