Johannes Friestad wrote:

>I'm sure there are many ways to do it, here's one:
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>a=[3,4,5,6]
>b=%w{three four five six seven}
>res={}
>a.length.times {|i| break if i>=b.length; res[a[i]]=b[i]; }
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>It handles the situation where either array is shorter than the other.
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>jf
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I'm using...

new_item = Hash.new
Item.column_names.each { |column_name| new_item[column_name] = row.shift }

at the moment and it's working, so I won't replace it with these suggestions

zip was the method I knew about but couldn't remember :)

Kev