| Re: Case Insensitive Hash but still preserve cases of original keys [message #89004 is a reply to message #89002] |
Mon, 14 July 2014 00:02   |
SonicKenking
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Registered: October 2010
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On Monday, July 14, 2014 4:53:53 PM UTC+10, Fabien wrote:
> Hi,
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> On 14.07.2014 08:24, SonicKenking wrote:
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>> I tried to implement a special Hash object with following features
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>> 1. Keys are of String type
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>> 2. Keys should be case insensitive
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>> 3. The original cases of keys should be preserved and reported when the keys() method is called.
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> this sounds like a dictionary to me:
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> IDL> h = dictionary()
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> IDL> h['X'] = 42
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> IDL> print, h.keys()
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> X
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> IDL> print, h['x'], h['X']
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> 42 42
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> IDL> print, h.haskey('x'), h.haskey('X')
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> 1 1
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> IDL> h['x'] = 1337
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> IDL> print, h['x'], h['X'] ; output 1337, 1337
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> 1337 1337
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> IDL> print, h.keys()
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> x
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> Cheers,
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> Fabien
Hi Fabien,
Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, Dictionary is not the solution in this case. Because the keys do not necessarily conform the naming rules of IDL variables, e.g. a key with white spaces "Some Key " or non-alphanumeric letter "<Key>".
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