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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Newbie - HashMap!
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On 17 Mar 2005 04:03:57 -0800, fphsml@gmail.com wrote:

> What is the equivalent of the following C++ STL code?
> 
> hash_map<string, string> hm;
> hm["key"] = "value";
> 
> I saw a sample at
> http://www.adapower.com/index.php?Command=Class&ClassID=GNAT&CID=240
> which looks scary.
> 
> I just need simple key lookup. Which library should I use?

If that scares you (I don't know why, maybe because of unbounded strings?)
then you could try:

http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de/ada/tables.htm

It uses plain string keys (though it's implementation is not a hash).
However, unbounded strings (or pointers to strings) will be needed anyway
on the "values" side.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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