Question

Pardon my ignorance, but how would I begin to go about creating the following type of dictionary:

"please give your new library a name"
French

what I want is to then create a new hash as the value to the key French { "French" => "{}" }

as then in the value to key French it could be updated to look like { {"hello" => "bonjour", "bonjour" => "hello"}, {"good" => "bon", "bon" => "good}, ... }

I hope you can see what I am trying to do. Perhaps I am going about this the completely wrong way?

Edit… perhaps something along these lines?

puts "please give your new library a name"
user_libs = Hash.new
sub = gets.chomp
user_libs[sub] = {}
puts user_libs

Answer 1

print "please give your new library a name: "
name = gets.chomp
h = {name => {}}
print "enter word pairs: " #hello bonjour
while (input = gets.chomp) != ""
  k,v = input.split(" ")
  h[name][k] = v
end
p h