From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2003-03-28T22:19:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie question:Does Ruby have the structure of hash's array like	 Perl does?


"Tim Kynerd" <tkynerd@spamcop.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:pan.2003.03.28.07.17.11.199188@spamcop.net...
> On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 16:01:04 +0900, Weng Lei-QCH1840 wrote:
>
> > Something like below doesn't work:
> >    h=Hash.new
> >    h["a"][0]="something"
> >    h["a"][1]="another thing"

> h = Hash.new
> h["a"] = Array.new
> h["a"][0] = "something"

I think in older versions you can achieve this by
(h["a"] ||= [])[0] = "something"

I think newer versions can do

h = Hash.new{Array.new}
h["a"][0] = "something"

Regards

    robert