From: John Dale <johnwdale@...>
Date: 2010-02-25T04:52:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Create a counter in a hash to return first 10 results only

John Dale wrote:
> New to ruby..
> 
> I created a hash array and everything works fine except I can't figure
> out how to include a counter to return the first 10 results only.
> 
> Thanks John
> 
> Here is the code
> 
> h = Hash.new
> good_words.each { |w|
>     if h.has_key?(w)
>       h[w] = h[w] + 1
>     else
>       h[w] = 1
>     end
>   }
> 
> # sort the hash by value, and then print it in this sorted order
> 
> h.sort{|a,b| b[1]<=>a[1]}.each { |elem|
> 
>    puts "\"#{elem[0]}\" has #{elem[1]} occurrences"
> 
> }


referred to an earlier post and figured this out.

Thanks

John
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