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Ruby Ruby Collections Ruby Hashes Working with Hash Values

Jared Armes
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Jared Armes
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Posted by Jared Armes
Jared Armes
Courses Plus Student 6,391 Points

Need help with "has_value?" method

I don't understand what is wrong with my code, but there must be something wrong with my phrasing. If anyone can offer any assistance, I'd greatly appreciate it.

hash.rb 
grocery_item = { "item" => "Bread", "quantity" => 1, "brand" => "Treehouse Bread Company" }

if grocery_item.has_value?("Bread")
  grocery_item = { "food" => true }
end

1 Answer

William Li
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William Li
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William Li
William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 Points

Hi, Jared.

The way you approach this problem is mostly correct, except that the notation you use to re-assign a new value to the existing key on the Hash is wrong.

grocery_item["food"] = true    # use [] notation for re-assigning value to key

Cheers.