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Ruby Ruby Collections Ruby Hashes Working with Hash Keys

dididadaya Zhao
dididadaya Zhao
1,319 Points
Posted by dididadaya Zhao
dididadaya Zhao
1,319 Points

don't know how to do this

confused

hash.rb 
hash = { "name" => "Bread", "quantity" => 1, "calories" => 100 }
food=true
if hash.has_key?("calories") = true
  puts"food"
end

1 Answer

Tim Knight
Tim Knight
28,888 Points
Tim Knight
Tim Knight
28,888 Points

Diya,

Keep in mind that you're being asked to set a variable, not necessary print it to the screen.

Take a look at this revision:

if hash.has_key?("calories")
  food = true 
end

Because has_key? will return true or false I don't specifically have to ask it if it is equal to true.