From: KOTP <keeperotphones@...>
Date: 2010-10-12T11:31:50+09:00
Subject: Re: more idiomatic way to avoid errors when calling method on variable that may be nil?

On Oct 11, 3:02 pm, Charles Calvert <cb...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm using Ruby 1.8.7 patchlevel 249
>
> Is there a more idiomatic way to do the following?
>
> var = hash[key].nil? ? nil : hash[key].downcase

This is identical to saying this:
var = hash[key] && hash[key].to_s.downcase

:: Hope that helps.