From: John Bentley <pluhveso@...>
Date: 2008-11-23T23:13:10+09:00
Subject: Storing Array in Hash

I am having the most insane time with Ruby's Hash class.

I have Array's of varied length, but whenever they are stored and then
retrieved from a Hash they become length of 1 and all the values are
somehow combined in that first cell.

Code:

aRay = ["a","b","c"]
aRay2 = ["1","2","3","4","5"]

# prints out 3
puts aRay.size
# prints out 5
puts aRay2.size

# store them
h = {"letters" => aRay, "numbers" => aRay2}

# prints out abc
puts h.values_at("letters").to_s
# prints out 12345
puts h.values_at("numbers").to_s

# retrieve the arrays
ltrArray = h.values_at("letters")
numArray = h.values_at("numbers")

# prints out abc
puts ltrArray.to_s
# prints out 12345
puts numArray.to_s

# prints out 1
puts ltrArray.size
# prints out 1
puts numArray.size




What am I doing wrong?
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