From: Chad Perrin <code@...>
Date: 2011-05-04T08:48:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Iterating over an Array of Hashes

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On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 07:58:04AM +0900, Peter Hicks wrote:
>=20
> What I want to do within the b.each loop is work on a *copy* of each
> element of b, such that if I mess around with it, the changes are lost
> when when the loop exits.

I think this might do what you want:

    Marshal.load(Marshal.dump b).each |b_item|
      # do stuff
    end

It's ugly and kludgey, but it should work.

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