Robert Klemme
4/16/2007 3:50:00 PM
On 16.04.2007 17:28, Pugal Panneerselvam wrote:
> I am a newbie to Ruby. I have a nested hash converted to openstruct
> (primarily for ease of access).
It seems you made your access more complicated...
> PreProduction
> webServers
> webServer1
> webServer2
> appServers
> appServer1
> appServer2 etc.,
> I have the following global variables
> $RCProperties -> openstruct
> $RCPREPROD -> 'PreProduction'
> $RCWEBSERVER -> 'webServers'
>
> If I invoke it with $RCProperties.PreProduction.webServers things work
> as expected. However when I try to invoke using
> $RCProperties.$RCPREPROD.$RCWEBSERVERS ...I am getting syntax error.
> Do I need to negate the . using regular expression? If yes, I tried
> using $RCProperties\.$RCPreprod\.$RCWEBSERVERS but still getting the
> same error message.
You need to either do
$RCProperties.PreProduction.webServers
or
$RCProperties.send($RCPREPROD).send($RCWEBSERVER)
or revert back to Hashes and do
$RCProperties[$RCPREPROD][$RCWEBSERVER]
Kind regards
robert