From: Rob Biedenharn <Rob@...>
Date: 2011-04-04T21:42:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Splitting each_cons?


On Apr 3, 2011, at 5:07 PM, Simon Harrison wrote:

> Thanks guys. More options to try and remember! That's one of the  
> things
> that bugs me a bit about Ruby. TMTOWTDI.
>
> each |film| film.first, film.last
> each |film| film.join
> each |label, volume| ...
>
> My brain would like: if you have an array with subarrays acting as  
> key,
> value pairs, do this to access them.

You should look at the Array#assoc method that lets you do exactly this.

http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Array.html#M000269

-Rob

P.S. Sorry if this was mentioned already, I know I'm jumping into the  
middle of this conversation.

> But, how am I to to decide which is
> the "best" option from the above? I suppose it depends on the  
> situation.
> It becomes hard when every situation has multiple solutions and each
> solution may effect what to do next; which has multipe solutions etc.
>
> Still, I've tried Perl, Python, Lisp, C, C++, C#, Java, VB and  
> probably
> more, but Ruby seems to make sense more than all of these. At least  
> I've
> achieved something, eh?
>
> -- 
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>

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