From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2011-01-12T05:57:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Tidying up a text document


On Jan 11, 2011, at 08:30 , simonh wrote:

> I have the following data which comes from exporting an Access
> database. I'm not sure how the formatting will look (as there is no
> preview post option), but basically I need to go from what you see
> below to:
> 
> ["Crimping Pliers", "Cerrti-lok Tyco 169400 Crimping Pliers",
> "102956", "169406" ... etc]
> 
> or an array of hashes:
> 
> [{':Category => 'Crimping Pliers', :Description => "Cerrti-lok Tyco
> 169400 Crimping Pliers",  etc... ]

hash = Hash[columns.zip(values)]

ri Hash::[]

and

ri Enumerable.zip