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A in Ruby is a dictionary-style collection, also known as an associative array in other programming languages. Rather than using integer-based indexes, a hash uses any object as the key.
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Clements, M. (2014). Hashes. In: Ruby Quick Syntax Reference. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-6569-6_5
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