Is there a succinct way in ruby to do a multiple level hash assignement?
I am more
used to perl, which you can do something like
$hp->{level1}->{level2} = 3
even if the first and second level had never existed below.
Any help would be appreciated.
Regards,
Don Mc
don mc wrote:
Is there a succinct way in ruby to do a multiple level hash assignement?
I am more
used to perl, which you can do something like
$hp->{level1}->{level2} = 3
even if the first and second level had never existed below.
There’s an autovivification trick, using the default proc of a hash (see
ri default_proc):
irb(main):002:0> pr = proc {|h,k| h[k]=Hash.new(&pr) }
=> #Proc:0x02c15618@:2(irb)
irb(main):003:0> h = Hash.new(&pr)
=> {}
irb(main):004:0> h[1][2][3][4] = 5
=> 5
irb(main):005:0> h
=> {1=>{2=>{3=>{4=>5}}}}
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Joel VanderWerf wrote:
There’s an autovivification trick, using the default proc of a hash (see ri
default_proc):
irb(main):002:0> pr = proc {|h,k| h[k]=Hash.new(&pr) }
=> #Proc:0x02c15618@:2(irb)
irb(main):003:0> h = Hash.new(&pr)
^^
^^
nice! my approach is slightly more verbose.
-a
Thanks! Thats just what I needed.
Regards,
Don
Joel VanderWerf wrote:
don mc wrote:
Is there a succinct way in ruby to do a multiple level hash assignement?
I am more
used to perl, which you can do something like
$hp->{level1}->{level2} = 3
even if the first and second level had never existed below.
There’s an autovivification trick, using the default proc of a hash (see
ri default_proc):
irb(main):002:0> pr = proc {|h,k| h[k]=Hash.new(&pr) }
=> #Proc:0x02c15618@:2(irb)
irb(main):003:0> h = Hash.new(&pr)
=> {}
irb(main):004:0> h[1][2][3][4] = 5
=> 5
irb(main):005:0> h
=> {1=>{2=>{3=>{4=>5}}}}