From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2009-06-20T21:41:23+09:00
Subject: Re: need a hash/iteration tutorial...text reading.

On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 2:28 PM, David A. Black <dblack@rubypal.com> wrote:
>
>  This message is in MIME format.  The first part should be readable text,
>  while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools.
Ooops, that was yet another mistake, thx for telling me David.
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>> IIRC the insertion order is maintained correctly for literals and Hash[]
>> thus
>> Hash[ * a_hash.sort_by{ whatever } ]
>> should do the trick.
>
> You'd want to throw in a flatten(1) to unwrap the inner arrays:
>
>  [*hash.sort_by {...}.flatten(1)]
well spotted.
R.