From: Farrel Lifson <farrel.lifson@...>
Date: 2008-12-07T17:06:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Very Basic Question

2008/12/7 Gilman Gunn <gilmangunn@comcast.net>:
> I have a very basic question... what does "=>" mean?

It's how you assign values to keys in a hash.

letter_values = { 'a' => 1, 'b' => 2, 'c' => 3,..., z => '26' }
letter_values['b'] # 2
letter_values['j'] # 10

Farrel
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