From: Aleksey V Zapparov <ixti@...>
Date: 2012-07-11T01:39:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Array in an array - how to assign to individual array?

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On Wed, 11 Jul 2012 01:16:48 +0900
Champak Ch <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:

> I have 2 arrays.
>=20
> a=3D["array1", "array2"] that stores the names of arrays as a string and
>=20
> b=3D[["1","2"],["3","4"]] that has the values for each of these arrays.
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> I want to access individual arrays specifically and the contents of a
> and b keep changing. So, I have to store it in a different array.
> I want to create 2 new arrays array1 and array2 with values from b.
> Like this.
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> array1=3D ["1","2"]
> array2=3D ["3","4"]
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> Can you please suggest some ideas?
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> -Champak
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You can create a Hash from these two arrays:


  a =3D ["array1", "array2"]
  b =3D [["1", "2"], ["3", "4"]]

  c =3D Hash[ [a, b].transpose ]
  # =3D> {"array1"=3D>["1", "2"],"array2"=3D>["3", "4"]}


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