From: sto.mar@...
Date: 2012-10-20T22:01:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Hash with Integer key issue

Am 20.10.2012 14:46, schrieb Wayne Simmerson:
> Thanks for all the replies,  I actually figured it out about 2 minutes
> after I posted the question.  I was banging my head against my desk for
> hours trying to figure out why it wasn't working, completely oblivious
> to the fact it had been converted to an Array. It took writing it out
> here to notice the Hash had been Arrayed!
>
> Is there no way to sort the hash and convert it back in the same
> statement?  Would be nice to do in a single line of code.

Arlen already told you!

   new_hash = Hash[x.sort_by {|k,v| v }.reverse]

But I do not see the use case for a sorted hash,
it appears conceptually wrong to me. Have you read Jan's post?


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