From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2008-05-28T18:18:46+09:00
Subject: Re: n00b question

2008/5/28 Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com>:
> 2008/5/27 Tim Wolak <tim.wolak@gmail.com>:
>> Can someone explain to me why my script is printing the key to my hash
>> twice?  I need it to print the key then the value on the first iteration
>> and on the second iteration it should only print the value.  I am
>> getting information from two files, the account numbers and balances and
>> displaying account number, yesterday balance, today balance and the
>> difference.
>
>> g = my_hash.to_s.sort
>> puts g
>
> You are printing key and value of your hash and since the value also
> contains the account number you see it twice.  You probably rather
> want:
>
> my_hash.sort.each |k,v|
>  puts v
> end

Here's an alternative

puts my_hash.values.sort_by {|v| v.account_number}

Cheers

robert

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