How can I assign multiple values to a hash key?

Question

For the sake of convenience I am trying to assign multiple values to a hash key in Ruby. Here's the code so far

myhash = { :name => ["Tom" , "Dick" , "Harry"] }

Looping through the hash gives a concatenated string of the 3 values

Output:

name : TomDickHarry

Required Output:

:name => "Tom" , :name => "Dick" , :name => "Harry"

What code must I write to get the required output?

Answer 1

myhash.each_pair {|k,v| v.each {|n| puts "#{k} => #{n}"}}
#name => Tom
#name => Dick
#name => Harry

The output format is not exactly what you need, but I think you get the idea.

Answer 2

The answers from Rohith and pierr are fine in this case. However, if this is something you're going to make extensive use of it's worth knowing that the data structure which behaves like a Hash but allows multiple values for a key is usually referred to as a multimap. There are a couple of implementations of this for Ruby including this one.