From: Andrew Timberlake <andrew@...>
Date: 2009-04-09T18:48:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Hash key : string or symbol!?

On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Abir B. <abboura84@yahoo.fr> wrote:
> Andrew Timberlake wrote:
>
>>> h = {:a => :b, 2 => 4, :g=> 6 }
>>> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> new_hash = {}
>> hash.each { |k,v| new_hash[k.to_sym] = v }
>> h.each { |k,v| new_hash[k.to_sym] = v }
>>
>
> if we have nubers in the hash that we'll be converted to nil with to_sym
> :
Then you could use
new_hash[k.kind_of?(Numeric) k : k.to_sym] = v

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