From: Marc Rene Arns <linux@...>
Date: 2002-05-30T06:43:32+09:00
Subject: Re: object-name = content of a variable (migration from perl)

I'm not sure if you got me right. The dynamically changing array-names 
was in respect to the abilities of PERL.
The idea to do it in ruby was to create new objects of the same class in 
a loop, but the number of objects is generated automatically changing 
(value of a variable) and also a part of the object-names should reflect 
a running number, so that later I would be able to read in a loop (who is 
changing the number) object by object with their parameters, s.th. Like 
this
p = 'name'
i = 0
while (weather == fine)
o_name = p+i
o_name = test.new('give me', 'some parameters')
i += 1
end
what should create the objects name0, name1, etc. all belonging to the 
same class test.


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Am 29.05.02, 21:05:23, schrieb Alan Chen <alan@digikata.com> zum Thema 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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