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veda84

Hello guys,

How does Hash works internally,
Case1:

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 # Literal Hash

h0 = { ’one’ => 1, ’two’ => 2, ’three’ => 3}

Case 2:

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 # Populating a hash

h1 = Hash.new » {}

h1[’gemstone’] = ’ruby’ 

h1[’fruit’] = ’banana’

When I try to print h0 in case 1:,
it prints as below
{"three"=>3, "two"=>2, "one"=>1}

Whereas in the Case 2 h1 prints as
{"gemstone"=>"ruby", "fruit"=>"banana"}

Why is the differences???

Thanks,
Veda

improvcornartist

I'm not sure I understand your question, but hashes are not order specific. So, even though you define it as in case 1 (1,2,3) it may print out in a different order, as you have seen. The hash itself is unchanged, it just runs through the items in it's own order.

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