On 6/16/05, James Edward Gray II <james / grayproductions.net> wrote: > On Jun 16, 2005, at 11:07 AM, Belorion wrote: > > > I want a Hash of Hashes. Furthermore, I want it so that if a key for > > the first has does not exist, the default value is a new hash. > > irb(main):001:0> foo = Hash.new { |hash, key| hash[key] = Hash.new } > => {} > irb(main):002:0> foo["ii"]["jj"] = "Hello World." > => "Hello World." > irb(main):003:0> foo["ii"] > => {"jj"=>"Hello World."} > irb(main):004:0> foo["ii"]["jj"] > => "Hello World." > > Hope that helps. Aha! Perfect!