From: Stuart Clarke <stuart.clarke1986@...>
Date: 2009-02-04T01:15:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Hash counting

Thanks for replying and sorry for the confusion.

My hash (counts) contains date and time ID's like so TueAug052008

When I do a puts on counts I get a list of these as per there date and 
time values which is what I want. However counting to see if there is 
more than 5 occurances of one the ID values fails and doesn't find 
anything in my data set.

I have done as you asked and the output is as follows:

{"WedAug062008"=>1}

This suggests there is a problem. Just for your information doing an 
output on counts (the hash) gives this:

MonFeb0220091
MonFeb0220091
MonFeb0220091
MonFeb0220091
MonFeb0220091
MonFeb0220091
MonFeb0220091
MonFeb0220091
WedAug062008
WedAug062008

Thanks for your help


Robert Klemme wrote:
> 2009/2/3 Stuart Clarke <stuart.clarke1986@gmail.com>:
>> I have worked out the problem but I am a little unsure how to solve it.
>>
>> We have counts which holds all of the event ID's, however |d, cnt| is
>> not counting the number of matching ID numbers and it just assigns each
>> ID the number 1.
> 
> What does that mean? What's in the Hash?
> 
>> TueAug052008
>> 1
>> 1
>> 1
>> 1
>> 1
>>
>> Can anyone help me with a fix? Many thanks
> 
> Frankly, you lost me there.  Please do this:
> 
> require 'pp'
> 
> File.open('/tmp/log', 'w') {|io| io.write(counts.pretty_inspect)}
> 
> And look at the output and / or post it here.
> 
> robert

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