* Albert Schlef <albertschlef / gmail.com> (11:02) schrieb:

> I have the following array:
>
> headers = [
>   { :name => 'user-agent', :value => 'blah blah' },
>   { :name =>'content-type', :value => 'text/html' },
>   { :name => 'pragma', :value => 'no-cache' },
>   { :name =>'content-length', :value => '30' },
>   { :name =>'content-type', :value => 'text/html' },
> ]
>
> Now, I want to extract the :value of the first header of a specific
> :name. For example, I want to extract the :value of the 'content-type'
> header.

That's simply the wrong data structure for the task. So the question is:
why not use a Hash?

mfg,                      simon .... l