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CJ Jean
519 PointsCan I turn the string values in a ruby hash to an integer?
I created a hash from an array of strings using the Hash[] mehtod.
This made all the key value pairs strings:
{"green"=>"5", "blue"=>"13", "grass"=>"9"}
Is there now a way to turn the values into an integer? For some reason, each_value is not changing the value to integer as shown here:
y = {"green"=>"5", "blue"=>"13", "grass"=>"9"}
n = y.each_value { | v | v = v.to_i }
n =>{"green"=>"5", "blue"=>"13", "grass"=>"9"}
What I want is to turn it into this:
{"green"=>5, "blue"=>13, "grass"=>9}
1 Answer
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16,571 PointsYou can create a new hash and assign the mapped through old hash by for example doing this:
new_hash = Hash[old_hash.map{ |k, v| [k, v.to_i] } ]