From: Anurag Priyam <anurag08priyam@...>
Date: 2011-01-14T03:17:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Hash#select, different than documented?

> However, that is not the behavior I am seeing in my ruby 1.8.6.  Is that
> documentation for a later version of ruby, in which this behavior
> changed? Or is the documentation just wrong?

I remember a mail on the list by James Britt stating that ruby-doc.org
has been updated for 1.9 to be the default. I can confirm the expected
behavior (returning a Hash) on 1.9.2 and 1.8.7.

> Is there any other search behavior implemented on Hash I could be using
> instead, with more convenient behavior for finding hash subsets, and/or
> finding hash keys whose values are matched by a certain block?

Passing the return value of select to Hash.[] method might help your case.

>> h = { "a" => 100, "b" => 200, "c" => 300 }
>> Hash[h.select {|k,v| k > "a"}]  #=> {"b" => 200, "c" => 300}

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