From: Philipp Meier <meier@...>
Date: 2002-09-21T04:09:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Checking hash key's and values, with case insensitivity


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On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 01:43:10AM +0900, MikkelFJ wrote:
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> "Dossy" <dossy@panoptic.com> wrote in message
> news:20020920153223.GZ27665@panoptic.com...
>=20
> > If you're looking for case insensitive hashes you're already
> > going to hell.
> >
> > Isn't the whole constraint of a hashtable is that it's case sensitive?
> >
> > -- Dossy
>=20
> The way to deal with this is to create a hashtable that is indexed by
> normalized keys i.e. all uppercase or all lowercase characters. Upon look=
up
> you map the search key the same way. The actual hash lookup is still case
> sensitive. You may then store the original key as a value and you may also
> want to maintain two hashes - one with the original keys and one with the
> normalized keys.

And do what if you have two keys in the original hash if they are equal
when ignoring the case?

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