From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2011-09-12T23:06:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Creating a hash from two arrays

On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Aaron D. Gifford <astounding@gmail.com> wrote:
> Or using just the list of words and Ruby 1.9:
>
>  ansi = %w{Alpha Bravo Charlie Delta ...... Zulu}
>  zippedhash = Hash[ansi.map{|x| x[0].downcase}.zip(ansi)]
>
> @Adam Prescott, I think you're right about 1.8, which is why I
> prefaced my response with "This works in 1.9 at least."  *chuckle*

or - avoiding the temporary Array:

ansi = %w{Alpha Bravo Charlie Delta ...... Zulu}
hash = {}
ansi.each {|w| hash[w[0].upcase] = w}

Kind regards

robert

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