Introduction to Array and Hash

Learn about the Ruby data types—array and hash.

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In previous exercises, we used simple data types, such as strings and integers (called Fixnum prior to Ruby 2.4). There are also composite data types, which are a collection of other types. The most common composite data types are arrays and hashes. A variable of type array is like a list of objects. A variable of type hash is a dictionary-like lookup, where each value is stored against a key.

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