From: Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@...>
Date: 2010-06-02T16:05:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Parsing geonames

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On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 1:30 AM, 12 34 <rubyforum@web.knobby.ws> wrote:

> Michael Fellinger wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 2:57 PM, 12 34 <rubyforum@web.knobby.ws> wrote:
> >> 41.505928,-81.594582
> >
> > iota ~ % irb
> >>> require 'geonames'
> > => true
> >>> places = Geonames::WebService.find_nearby_place_name(41.505928,
> -81.594582)
> > => [#<Geonames::Toponym:0x000000027dd158 @name="Little Italy",
> > @alternate_names=nil, @latitude=41.5089406, @longitude=-81.5981817,
> > @geoname_id="5161005", @country_code="US", @country_name="United
> > States", @feature_class="P", @feature_code="PPLX",
> > @feature_class_name=nil, @feature_code_name=nil, @population=nil,
> > @elevation=nil, @distance=0.4495>]
> >>> places.first.country_name
> > => "United States"
>
> Thanks. I had tried places.country_name among others. Why the "first"?
>
>
Because places is an array (think a list of geonames). You can tell it is an
Array because it is surrounded by brackets. You have to tell it which
element in the Array you are interested in, in this case the one at index
zero (the first index).

http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Array.html


> places_nearby[0].country_code works too.
>
> The docs didn't suggest how to parse the result.
>
> Thank you for the answers, but I'm not sure why it's working. But I can
> proceed.
>
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