From: Louis-Philippe <default@...>
Date: 2008-12-18T07:40:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Using ruby hash on array

------=_Part_13418_28160634.1229554113291
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline

I don't know if I got you right...
If a is the identifier, then your data structure could be something like:

hash = { 'data A' => ['data B', 'data C', 'data D', 'data E', 'data F'],
'data A' => ['data B', 'data C', 'data D', 'data E', 'data F'],
'data A' => ['data B', 'data C', 'data D', 'data E', 'data F'] }

where you could access a data A like hash['data A'] or with if
hash.has_key?('data A')
and data F with hash['data A'][4].

2008/12/17 Stuart Clarke <stuart.clarke1986@gmail.com>

> I would like to process some data from an array and using hash to
> perform a count on one aspect of the data in the array. The array holds
> lines of similarly formatted data like so
>
> data A      data B     data C     data D     data E     data F
> data A      data B     data C     data D     data E     data F
> data A      data B     data C     data D     data E     data F
>
> data A is the identifier of each row full of data, data F contains a lot
> of data which requires a regular expression which is passed to a method
> for example:
>
> "#{data F[/Name:\t(.+?)\r\n/, 1]}"
>
> I am stuck writing the hash section of the code. The alogorithm is
>
> if data A == 100
> load data F reg expression into hash
> end
> count data F to determine the number of each name extracted by the
> regular expression
> print bob 6, sue 12, tim 1
>
> I hope this makes sense and many thanks in advance
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
>

------=_Part_13418_28160634.1229554113291--