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[REBOL] Re: hash questions

From: joel::neely::fedex::com at: 8-Jan-2002 6:27

Hi, David, David Hawley wrote:
> I come from the perl, tcl world where hashes are more like > array indicies. In rebol, it seems that I can build a hash > list, of some arbitrary values, but cannot associate keys > with data. Am I missing soemthing? > > is in perl $hash{ "joe" } = $joesData > and $data = $hash{ " joe" } > > can I do something like this in REBOL? >
You can do this in REBOL: favoriteLanguage: [ "Larry" "Perl" "Carl" "REBOL" "Guido" "Python" "Matz" "Ruby" "Richard" "LISP" ] and then
>> print select favoriteLanguage"Guido"
Python However, if you want to maintain a dynamic set of associations it's a bit more work: assoc: make object! [ data: [] default: 0 clear: func [] [data: copy []] store: func [k [string!] v [string!] /local pos] [ pos: find/skip data k 2 either found? pos [ change next pos v] [ append append data k v] ] fetch: func [k [string!] /local r] [ either found? r: select/skip data 2 k [r] [default]] ] used as follows:
>> favlang: make assoc [default: "INTERCAL"] >> favlang/fetch "David"
== "INTERCAL"
>> favlang/store "David" "REBOL"
== ["David" "REBOL"]
>> favlang/store "Bjarne" "c++"
== ["David" "REBOL" "Bjarne" "c++"]
>> favlang/store "Edsger" "Mathematics"
== ["David" "REBOL" "Bjarne" "c++" "Edsger" "Mathematics"]
>> favlang/fetch "David"
== "REBOL"
>> favlang/fetch "Edsger"
== "Mathematics" Both blocks and hashes can be used with SELECT and FIND (and other access/manipulation functions as well). Hashes use a hash-coding scheme (internally) to speed the searching. You may be wondering about the /SKIP above. The reason is that REBOL by default treats blocks and hashes as ordered collection of *single*values* which means that one could also say
>> select favlang/data "REBOL"
== "Bjarne" to conclude that REBOL's favorite programming language is Bjarne! The /SKIP refinement tells FIND, SELECT, et al, to treat the first argument as a collection of n-tuples, where n is the last argument. When we say SELECT/SKIP block val 2 we're asking SELECT to consider only the first value of every *pair* of entries, so that we get
>> select/skip favlang/data "Edsger" 2
== ["Mathematics"]
>> select/skip favlang/data "REBOL" 2
== none which is more likely what you'd expect, coming from Perl. You can, of course, use other tuple sizes than 2, as in guruData: [ "Edsger" "Dijkstra" "UT Austin" "Don" "Knuth" "Stanford" "Tony" "Hoare" "Oxford" "David" "Gries" "Cornell" ] which then can be treated as triples of data via
>> select/skip guruData "Tony" 3
== ["Hoare" "Oxford"] (Notice that the remainder of the triple is returned as a block.) Even though
>> find/skip guruData "Don" 3
== [ "Don" "Knuth" "Stanford" "Tony" "Hoare" "Oxford" "David" "Gries" "Cornell" ] succeeds, notice that
>> find/skip guruData "Oxford" 3
== none fails, since "Oxford" doesn't *begin* any triple of values. HTH! -jn- -- ; sub REBOL {}; sub head ($) {@_[0]} REBOL [] # despam: func [e] [replace replace/all e ":" "." "#" "@"] ; sub despam {my ($e) = @_; $e =~ tr/:#/.@/; return "\n$e"} print head reverse despam "moc:xedef#yleen:leoj" ;