Help with Hashes

Question

Hi - I'm a complete novice when it comes to programming and also Ruby so apologies in advance if what I'm asking is super easy :-)
I'm trying to iterate through my hash and moving items into arrays if they contain a certain string. Any help as to why it doesn't seem to do any matching would be great.
My code is:
firsthash = {'film' => ["Shawshank redemption","Paul","Shaun of the dead"]}
match = []
nonmatch = []
        firsthash.each do |item|
             if item.include?('au')
                 match.push(item)
             else
                 nonmatch.push(item)
        end
end
puts match
puts nonmatch

Vicky Mason · Answer

Doh!! of course! I was thinking that the each_value was picking the array values. I've changed the code and it works perfectly.
Thank you so much for your help :-)

Stone Preston · Answer

your for each loop is iterating over the items in the hash, not the ones in the array that is nested in the hash. it loops over the items in the hash, instead of going over each item in the hash, and then each item of that item and checking if it includes something. You need to add a for each loop inside of your first one 
firsthash.each do |hash_item|

hash_item.each do |array_item|

#code to check if it includes the string goes here and pushing goes here as well

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Help with Hashes

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