Re: associative array naming indirection

Ruby
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the array is in has a method that takes an array of string values.
end

foo(:a, :b, :c)

You can read about Array#zip and Array#flatten on the documentation
pages, or by using ri from the terminal, e.g.

$ ri Array#zip

Cheers,
Daniel

The above works great if you’re limited to the standard library.
However, if you’re allowed to use third party packages, I prefer hash
slices for this sort of thing:

require ‘hashslice’

def adddata(data)
@pageData[@labels] = *data
end

IMHO this behavior should exist in the current Hash class. :slight_smile:

Regards,

Dan

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Berger, Daniel wrote:

the array is in has a method that takes an array of string values.
end
Hash.[] takes an argument list with the even items being the keys and
foo(:a, :b, :c)
The above works great if you’re limited to the standard library.
However, if you’re allowed to use third party packages, I prefer hash
slices for this sort of thing:

require ‘hashslice’

def adddata(data)
@pageData[@labels] = *data
end

IMHO this behavior should exist in the current Hash class. :slight_smile:

I agree, and I’m using it myself. I just usually try to limit myself to
the standard library when answering questions on this list, to minimize
the hazzle the user has to go through.

Cheers,
Daniel