From: Joel VanderWerf <joelvanderwerf@...>
Date: 2010-08-19T16:07:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Hashes in 1.9 index

On 08/18/2010 09:28 PM, Iain Barnett wrote:
> Since hashes in 1.9 retain their insert order, is there a built in way to get values by index as well as key?
>
> For example:
> h = { a: 17, b: 18, c: 19 }
>
> puts h[1]
> =>  19

Not much better than using #each_with_index or #to_a:

 >> h = { a: 17, b: 18, c: 19 }
=> {:a=>17, :b=>18, :c=>19}
 >> h[h.keys[1]]
=> 18