From: Alan Chen <alan@...>
Date: 2002-05-30T05:56:35+09:00
Subject: Re: object-name = content of a variable (migration from perl)

On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 04:23:21AM +0900, Marc Rene Arns wrote:
> I'm new to programing and ruby as well and I want to ?convert? a
> PERL-Script, I've recently written into ruby. In the Perl-script, I
> produced in a while-loop every time a different array who's name came
> from a variable counting every time higher, something like that
> 
> $i = 1;
> while ($i < 10){
>         @{$i} = (?several?, ?changing?, ?variables?);
>         $i = $i+1;
>         }
> 
> so that I got a set of arrays @1, @2, and so on
>
> Now I want to do the same thing in ruby, but I found no way to do it.

I think another poster mentioned one way to dynamically create your
array names in ruby. As an alternative, is there any reason the data
has to be stored in @1, @2, etc? Could you just as easily store the
data in a hash:

@data = Hash.new     # {} works too
10.times { |i|
  @data[i] = [ ?several?, ?changing?, ?variables? ]
}

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