Here’s one taht I know is possible (I’m sure I’ve seen it somewhere
before)
I have 2 arrays and I’d like to change them into a Hash
stuff = [“1”, “2”, “3”]
Item.column_names.each { |column_name| new_item[column_name] = stuff[?]
}
The problem is how to index within the block to move along the stuff
array, and how to deal with the fact that most of the time the stuff
array is shorter than the column_names array
I’m sure using collect, map of something else ruby-ish that this is more
than possible, but I can’t find a solution right now
Kev
On 12/2/05, Kev J. [email protected] wrote:
I have 2 arrays and I’d like to change them into a Hash
pairs=%w(a b c d).zip(%w(x y));Hash[*pairs.flatten]
=> {“a”=>“x”, “b”=>“y”, “c”=>nil, “d”=>nil}
I’m sure there are many ways to do it, here’s one:
a=[3,4,5,6]
b=%w{three four five six seven}
res={}
a.length.times {|i| break if i>=b.length; res[a[i]]=b[i]; }
It handles the situation where either array is shorter than the other.
jf
Johannes F. wrote:
I’m using…
new_item = Hash.new
Item.column_names.each { |column_name| new_item[column_name] = row.shift
}
at the moment and it’s working, so I won’t replace it with these
suggestions
zip was the method I knew about but couldn’t remember 
Kev
Kev J. wrote:
Here’s one taht I know is possible (I’m sure I’ve seen it somewhere before)
I have 2 arrays and I’d like to change them into a Hash
stuff = [“1”, “2”, “3”]
Item.column_names.each { |column_name| new_item[column_name] = stuff[?] }
The problem is how to index within the block to move along the stuff
array, and how to deal with the fact that most of the time the stuff
array is shorter than the column_names array
stuff = [“1”, “2”, “3”]
Item.column_names.each_with_index { |column_name, i|
new_item[column_name] = stuff[i] }
On Fri, 02 Dec 2005 09:00:30 -0000, Kev J.
[email protected] wrote:
I’m sure using collect, map of something else ruby-ish that this is more
than possible, but I can’t find a solution right now
Kev
Well, theres lots of ways, but one is to inject the Hash as someone here
showed me yesterday:
items.column_names.inject({}) { |hash, column_name| hash[column_name] =
row.shift ; hash }
(I wanted to eliminate the ‘; hash’ at the end of the closure but
couldn’t
find a way yet…)
However, I personally prefer Simon’s solution, which can be a real
one-liner too 
Hash[*items.column_names.zip(row).flatten]
Hi –
On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, David A. Black wrote:
The problem is how to index within the block to move along the stuff array,
and how to deal with the fact that most of the time the stuff array is
shorter than the column_names array
I’m sure using collect, map of something else ruby-ish that this is more
than possible, but I can’t find a solution right now
a = [1,2,3]
b = [4,5,6,7,8]
Hash[*a.zip(b[0,a.size]).flatten
=> {1=>4, 2=>5, 3=>6}
Actually just use the shorter one first and zip won’t fill it out with
nils:
Hash[*a.zip(b).flatten]
David
–
David A. Black
[email protected]
“Ruby for Rails”, forthcoming from Manning Publications, April 2006!
Hi –
On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Kev J. wrote:
I’m sure using collect, map of something else ruby-ish that this is more than
possible, but I can’t find a solution right now
a = [1,2,3]
b = [4,5,6,7,8]
Hash[*a.zip(b[0,a.size]).flatten
=> {1=>4, 2=>5, 3=>6}
The problem with flatten is that it can be overzealous, but it looks
like you probably don’t have nested arrays. If you do, you can get
the flattenx package from RAA and use flatten_once.
David
–
David A. Black
[email protected]
“Ruby for Rails”, forthcoming from Manning Publications, April 2006!
Hi –
On Sat, 3 Dec 2005, David A. Black wrote:
a = [1,2,3]
b = [4,5,6,7,8]
Hash[*a.zip(b[0,a.size]).flatten
=> {1=>4, 2=>5, 3=>6}
Actually just use the shorter one first and zip won’t fill it out with
nils:
Hash[*a.zip(b).flatten]
I hereby swear I will stop posting until I am being torn in no more
than ten directions at the same time In other words: I realize
that you can’t just switch them around at will. So you have to decide
whether you’re happy to have nils or if you want to truncate the hash
based on available values.
So adapt as needed
David
P.S. One of the things I’ve been grappling with today is (the third
day of) intermittent/non-existent Internet service – and a mysterious
reboot on my server. So I got and read this thread out of order.
Sorry if I reinvented anyone’s wheel
–
David A. Black
[email protected]
“Ruby for Rails”, forthcoming from Manning Publications, April 2006!