Have you tried Hash.new()? -----Original Message----- From: Schlienger, Marc [SMTP:M.Schlienger / bjoernsen.de] Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 9:56 AM To: ruby-talk ML Subject: [ruby-talk:28800] hashes created dynamically Hello, does anyone know how to create hashes at runtime? Let's say I have an array of strings (size unknown a priori). Each of these strings should be a hash key. Values for the keys will also be strings but are not known until runtime. /Marco