From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2004-04-24T21:54:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Array to Hash

Hi --

"Pe�a, Botp" <botp@delmonte-phil.com> writes:

> conversion fr hash to array is fine.
> 
> >> h
> => {"x"=>1, "y"=>3}
> >> a = h.to_a
> => [["x", 1], ["y", 3]]
> 
> no brainer there for a nuby like me :-)

I think there's a time limit on describing oneself as a nuby :-)

> but...
> 
> conversion fr array to hash... is quite a journey...
[...]
> Finally, I got it (dug the archives)..
> 
> >> h2 = Hash[*a]
> => {["x", 1]=>["y", 3]}

Dig the archives a little more :-) There's been a lot of discussion of
this in the past, including a rejected RCR
(http://www.rcrchive.net/rgarchive/rejected.html#rcr12, posted under
'dave' due to some glitch but actually submitted by me).  I called it
"hashify", but as you'll see from the many ruby-talk references it's
really the to_h[ash] idea.


David

-- 
David A. Black
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