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Hi Hunter,

quick and dirty:

Hash[*xml.scan(%r{>([^>]*)</f>}).flatten]

returns

{"12"=>"AAF",
"7"=>"AAE",
"13"=>"AAG",
"8"=>"AAA",
"9"=>"ISA",
"1"=>"AAA",
"2"=>"AAB",
"4"=>"AAC",
"5"=>"AAD"}

cheers

Simon

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Hi all,

I have an API call to another database app that returns the XML below:

<records> <record> <f id='3'>9</f> <f
id='8'>ISA</f> </record> <record> <f
id='3'>8</f>
<f id='8'>AAA</f> </record> <record> <f
id='3'>1</f> <f id='8'>AAA</f> </record>
  <record>
<f id='3'>2</f> <f id='8'>AAB</f> </record>
<record> <f id='3'>4</f> <f id='8'>AAC</f>
</record> <record> <f id='3'>5</f> <f
id='8'>AAD</f> </record> <record> <f
id='3'>7</f>
<f id='8'>AAE</f> </record> <record> <f
id='3'>12</f> <f id='8'>AAF</f> </record>
<record> <f id='3'>13</f> <f id='8'>AAG</f>
</record> </records>

I'd like to loop through each of these records and create a
hash. The
first value of each record being the key and the second being
the value
in the hash.

Any ideas? Thank you for helping a noob!

-Hunter

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