From: Matthew Kerwin <matthew@...>
Date: 2012-05-29T20:38:07+09:00
Subject: Re: how to create 'numbered symbols' in iterator?

Since a symbol is just an interned string you can use "key#{i}".intern
(or .to_sym) to cast it to a symbol.

On 29 May 2012 21:28, rooby shoez <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> I had this
>
>        {
>        key0: OpenSSL::Digest::SHA256.new.digest("1 #{key}"),
>      key1: OpenSSL::Digest::SHA256.new.digest("2 #{key}"),
>      key2: OpenSSL::Digest::SHA256.new.digest("3 #{key}"),
>      key3: OpenSSL::Digest::SHA256.new.digest("4 #{key}")
>      }
>
> I want this
>
> subkeys = {}
> 4.times do |i|
> subkeys[:key"#{i}"] = OpenSSL::Digest::SHA256.new.digest("#{i} #{key}")
> end
>
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