2008/6/6 Peñá, Botp <botp / delmonte-phil.com>:
> From: Robert Klemme [mailto:shortcutter / googlemail.com]
> # Here's a variant:
> <snip>
>
> i was not going to send my soln since many had already sent theirs (and ias busy playing :)),

Isn't it fun to play with something like this? :-)

> yet i was surprise how similar was mine to robertk's, so... (just happy that i can be as good as robertk ..sometimes ;)

Uh, oh, *cough*  Thank you!

> C:\family\ruby>cat test.rb
>
> # a = age
> # n = name
> hist = Hash.new { |h,a| h[a] = [] }
> DATA.each do |entry|
>  n, a = entry.split /\s*?,\s*/
>  break if a.nil?
>  hist[a.to_i] << n.strip.capitalize

It took me some time to realize that #to_i is actually the bit that
strips comments.  Very clever!

> end
>
> hist.sort_by{|a| a}.each do |a,n|
>  s = n.size
>  puts "#{a} -> #{s} #{"x"*s} (#{n.sort.join(', ')})"
> end
>
> __END__
> Bob, 2
> Jim ,2
> eric, 4 # note:
>  RoB, 5 # i can put comments
> bot, 4 #this is me :)
>  justin, 4, unneeded extras
> joe,zero
>
> --- no more here ----
>
> C:\family\ruby>ruby test.rb
> 0 -> 1 x (Joe)
> 2 -> 2 xx (Bob, Jim)
> 4 -> 3 xxx (Bot, Eric, Justin)
> 5 -> 1 x (Rob)
>
> C:\family\ruby>

Nice!

Kind regards

robert


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