So, a quick mockup of my issue can look like this ...
`def problem
[{
'Hash1' => {
'Hash_1' => 'abcd',
'Hash_2' => 'abcd',
'Hash_3' => nil,
}
},
{
'Hash2' => {
'Hash_1' => 'efg',
'Hash_2' => 'efg',
'Hash_3' => 'efg'
}
},
{
'Hash3' => {
'Hash_1' => 'hijk',
'Hash_2' => nil,
'Hash_3' => 'hijk'
}
}]
end`
For example, I want to use a .each
method to find the value of Hash2
for every instance of it, in all of the 3 hashes.
When I do this I get returned with Nil values everywhere. As an added issue, if hash2
has a nil
value, I want to return N/A
instead of having nil
.
problem.each do |item|
item.each do |thing|
thing.each do |other_thing|
puts other_thing['Hash1']
end
end
end
Which returns the following:
Hash1
abcd
efg
hijk
The spaces being nil
values. I am super stumped. Anyone wanna take a crack at this?
you are puts
ing undefined variables without any conditional checking
using the above data as an example:
problem.each do |arr_item|
arr_item.each do |hash_key, hash|
if hash['Hash_2']
puts hash['Hash_2']
else
puts 'N/A'
end
end
end