From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2009-02-03T05:49:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Hash counting

STDERR.puts is your friend.

> eventdateID.push eventsbydate.gsub(/\s/, '')[0..7] +
> eventsbydate[26..30]

STDERR.puts "A: #{eventdateID.inspect}"

> counts = Hash.new(0)
>   if eventdateID.find {|d| (counts[d] +=1) >= 5}
>     @alerts.push("#{event.event_id} #{@tab} #{event.time_written}
> #{@tab}#{event.event_type} #{@tab} #{type}")

STDERR.puts "B: #{@alerts.inspect}"

>   end

Then you can see if the data is what you expect before you go into the 
loop.

Note that 'find' will abort after one successful match. Is that what you 
want?
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