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Florian Aßmann

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Find every path and it's value in a Hash

Extends Hash class with each_path method.

This method takes a block as argument which is called each time a the recursivly searched Hash returns a key that does not point to another Hash.

Example:
paths = []
complex_hash = Hash[
  :a => { :aa => '1', :ab => '2' },
  :b => { :ba => '3', :bb => '4' }
]
complex_hash.each_path { |path, value| paths << [ path, value ] }
paths.inspect
# => "[[\"b/ba/\", \"3\"], [\"b/bb/\", \"4\"], [\"a/aa/\", \"1\"], [\"a/ab/\", \"2\"]]"



class Hash
  def each_path
    raise ArgumentError unless block_given?
    self.class.each_path( self ) { |path, object| yield path, object }
  end

  protected
  def self.each_path( object, path = '', &block )
    if object.is_a?( Hash ) then object.each do |key, value|
        self.each_path value, "#{ path }#{ key }/", &block
      end
    else yield path, object
    end
  end
end
to ruby hash recursive parsing by boof on Feb 22, 2007
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