update(*args) public

Adds the contents of the given hashes to the receiver.

If no block is given, entries with duplicate keys are overwritten with the values from each other_hash successively, otherwise the value for each duplicate key is determined by calling the block with the key, its value in the receiver and its value in each other_hash.

h1 = { "a" => 100, "b" => 200 }
h1.merge!          #=> {"a"=>100, "b"=>200}
h1                 #=> {"a"=>100, "b"=>200}

h1 = { "a" => 100, "b" => 200 }
h2 = { "b" => 246, "c" => 300 }
h1.merge!(h2)      #=> {"a"=>100, "b"=>246, "c"=>300}
h1                 #=> {"a"=>100, "b"=>246, "c"=>300}

h1 = { "a" => 100, "b" => 200 }
h2 = { "b" => 246, "c" => 300 }
h3 = { "b" => 357, "d" => 400 }
h1.merge!(h2, h3)
                   #=> {"a"=>100, "b"=>357, "c"=>300, "d"=>400}
h1                 #=> {"a"=>100, "b"=>357, "c"=>300, "d"=>400}

h1 = { "a" => 100, "b" => 200 }
h2 = { "b" => 246, "c" => 300 }
h3 = { "b" => 357, "d" => 400 }
h1.merge!(h2, h3) {|key, v1, v2| v1 }
                   #=> {"a"=>100, "b"=>200, "c"=>300, "d"=>400}
h1                 #=> {"a"=>100, "b"=>200, "c"=>300, "d"=>400}

Hash#update is an alias for Hash#merge!.

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