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tyronegcarter
tyronegcarter

Reputation: 3956

How to check if specific value is present in a hash?

I'm using Rails and I have a hash object. I want to search the hash for a specific value. I don't know the keys associated with that value.

How do I check if a specific value is present in a hash? Also, how do I find the key associated with that specific value?

Upvotes: 36

Views: 81578

Answers (8)

d1jhoni1b
d1jhoni1b

Reputation: 8035

Imagine you have the following Array of hashes

available_sports = [{name:'baseball', label:'MLB Baseball'},{name:'tackle_football', label:'NFL Football'}]

Doing something like this will do the trick

available_sports.any? {|h| h['name'] == 'basketball'}

=> false

available_sports.any? {|h| h['name'] == 'tackle_football'}

=> true

Upvotes: 4

Anton Orel
Anton Orel

Reputation: 576

The simplest way to check multiple values are present in a hash is:

h = { a: :b, c: :d }
h.values_at(:a, :c).all? #=> true
h.values_at(:a, :x).all? #=> false

In case you need to check also on blank values in Rails with ActiveSupport:

h.values_at(:a, :c).all?(&:present?)

or

h.values_at(:a, :c).none?(&:blank?)

The same in Ruby without ActiveSupport could be done by passing a block:

h.values_at(:a, :c).all? { |i| i && !i.empty? }

Upvotes: 8

dace
dace

Reputation: 6363

An even shorter version that you could use would be hash.values

Upvotes: -2

Fellow Stranger
Fellow Stranger

Reputation: 34023

If you do hash.values, you now have an array.

On arrays you can utilize the Enumerable search method include?

hash.values.include?(value_you_seek)

Upvotes: 1

Subhash Chandra
Subhash Chandra

Reputation: 3265

While Hash#has_key? works but, as Matz wrote here, it has been deprecated in favour of Hash#key?.

Hash's key? method tells you whether a given key is present or not.

hash.key?(:some_key)

Upvotes: 2

siame
siame

Reputation: 8657

The class Hash has the select method which will return a new hash of entries for which the block is true;

h = { "a" => 100, "b" => 200, "c" => 300 }
h.select {|k,v| v == 200}  #=> {"b" => 200}

This way you'll search by value, and get your key!

Upvotes: 1

rkb
rkb

Reputation: 3542

Hash includes Enumerable, so you can use the many methods on that module to traverse the hash. It also has this handy method:

hash.has_value?(value_you_seek)

To find the key associated with that value:

hash.key(value_you_seek)

This API documentation for Ruby (1.9.2) should be helpful.

Upvotes: 69

Val Akkapeddi
Val Akkapeddi

Reputation: 1183

Hash.has_value? and Hash.key.

Upvotes: 4

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