Hash question

Ruby
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I would like to return only part of hash as hash object.

Example:
h = { “a” => 100, “b” => 200, “c” => 300 }
result = h.somemethod(‘a’,‘c’)

should result in { “a” => 100, “c” => 200}

Is this already build in Hash object or should I start and code it.

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Hi —
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Datum: Mon, 5 May 2008 22:10:31 +0900
Von: Damjan R. [email protected]
An: [email protected]
Betreff: Hash question

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Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

you can use Hash#select or Hash#delete or Hash#delete_if for tasks like
this.
See some examples in the documentation for Hash:

http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Hash.html#M002898

Best regards,

Axel

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2008/5/5 Axel E. [email protected]:

h = { “a” => 100, “b” => 200, “c” => 300 }

you can use Hash#select or Hash#delete or Hash#delete_if for tasks like
this.
See some examples in the documentation for Hash:

class Hash - RDoc Documentation

Unfortunately these return Array instead of Hash.

You can do something like this:

irb(main):006:0> ha = { “a” => 100, “b” => 200, “c” => 300 }
=> {“a”=>100, “b”=>200, “c”=>300}
irb(main):007:0> sel = %w{a c}
=> [“a”, “c”]

irb(main):008:0> ha.inject({}) {|h,(k,v)| h[k]=v if sel.include? k;h}
=> {“a”=>100, “c”=>300}

irb(main):012:0> Hash[*ha.select {|k,v| sel.include? k}.flatten]
=> {“a”=>100, “c”=>300}

Kind regards

robert

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On May 5, 8:42 am, “Robert K.” [email protected] wrote:

TheR

Kind regards

robert

–
use.inject do |as, often| as.you_can - without end

Fortunately, this bone-headed behavior will be fixed in 1.9. Until
then, you can do what many others do and use Hash#reject with negative
logic.

In other words, instead of

{ "a" => 100, "b" => 200, "c" => 300 }.select { |k, v|  %w[a

c].include?(k) }

use

{ "a" => 100, "b" => 200, "c" => 300 }.reject { |k, v|  !%w[a

c].include?(k) }

Yes, I like this about as much as you’d think.

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Dear Robert,

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Datum: Mon, 5 May 2008 22:42:03 +0900
Von: “Robert K.” [email protected]
An: [email protected]
Betreff: Re: Hash question

Example:
Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

you can use Hash#select or Hash#delete or Hash#delete_if for tasks like
this.
See some examples in the documentation for Hash:

class Hash - RDoc Documentation

Unfortunately these return Array instead of Hash.

Hash#delete_if does indeed return a Hash (and I’m using ruby 1.8.6
(2007-06-07 patchlevel 36) [i486-linux]):

h = { “a” => 100, “b” => 200, “c” => 300 }
h.delete_if {|key, value| key >= “b” } #=> {“a”=>100}

So there’s no need to code yourself here.
But you’re right insofar as Hash#select returns a value and Hash@delete
returns an array.

Best regards,

Axel

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Here is what I have done:

class Hash
def select_as_hash(*args)
h = {}
args.each {|k| h[k]=self[k] unless self[k].nil? }
h
end
end

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