I have a hash like this:
Some_hash =
{"Albania"=>"Europe",
"Andorra"=>"Europe",
"Austria"=>"Europe",
Lebanon"=>"Asia",
"Macau"=>"Asia",
"Malaysia"=>"Asia",
"Papua New Guinea"=>"Asia",
"Jamaica"=>"North America",
"Martinique"=>"North America",
"Argentina"=>"South America",
"Chile"=>"South America",
"Sao Tome and Principe"=>"Africa",
"Senegal"=>"Africa",
"Somalia"=>"Africa",}
I would like to identify the five continents individually, and the countries that belong to them, such that I end up with something like this:
{"Africa" => ["Senegal", "Somalia"]}
{"Europe" => ["Albania", "Andorra", "Austria"]}
for all of the continents.
I tried this:
def country
inflation_hash = {}
XPath.match( data, "//country").map do |element|
inflation_hash[element.attributes["name"]] = element.attributes["continent"]
end
inflation_hash.each do |country, continent|
new_hash = {}
if inflation_hash.has_value?("Africa") == true
new_hash["Africa"] = inflation_hash.keys
puts new_hash
end
end
end
and it works much too well. I get a new hash:
{Africa => []}
but I have two problems:
- I create a new hash for each African country.
- Each new hash contains all the keys, which includes all non-African countries.
I think the first problem has to do with the each method so I have to set some conditional, right?
The second problem, I have no idea how to fix.
Any pointers would be greater appreciated.