From: Lyle Johnson <lyle@...>
Date: 2002-04-20T04:49:44+09:00
Subject: Re: String to method name

> I realize that, but I'm not going to do any changing.  The gist of what
> I'm trying to do is this, have a something like this in perl:
>
> SenslessNames{badGuyType}{badGuyShow} = badGuy;
>
> So you could do a lookup by type and show and get a given badGuy string
> returned.  Can you do multidimensional (double key) hashes in Ruby?

It sounds like you're just talking about a Hash object (SenslessNames) whose
keys are strings (indicating the bad guy type) and the associated values are
themselves hashes (of show titles to bad guy names). Maybe something like
this:

    badGuyType = "mutantMonkey"
    badGuyShow = "powerPuffGirls"
    badGuy = "Mojo Jojo"

    SenslessNames = {}
    SenslessNames[badGuyType] = { badGuyShow => badGuy }

    puts SenslessNames["mutantMonkey"]["powerPuffGirls"]    # prints "Mojo
Jojo"

Hope this helps,

Lyle