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- Tie::SubstrHash - Fixed-table-size, fixed-key-length hashing
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- require Tie::SubstrHash;
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- tie %myhash, 'Tie::SubstrHash', $key_len, $value_len, $table_size;
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- The TTTTiiiieeee::::::::SSSSuuuubbbbssssttttrrrrHHHHaaaasssshhhh package provides a hash-table-like
- interface to an array of determinate size, with constant key
- size and record size.
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- Upon tying a new hash to this package, the developer must
- specify the size of the keys that will be used, the size of
- the value fields that the keys will index, and the size of
- the overall table (in terms of key-value pairs, not size in
- hard memory). _T_h_e_s_e _v_a_l_u_e_s _w_i_l_l _n_o_t _c_h_a_n_g_e _f_o_r _t_h_e _d_u_r_a_t_i_o_n
- _o_f _t_h_e _t_i_e_d _h_a_s_h. The newly-allocated hash table may now
- have data stored and retrieved. Efforts to store more than
- $table_size elements will result in a fatal error, as will
- efforts to store a value not exactly $value_len characters
- in length, or reference through a key not exactly $key_len
- characters in length. While these constraints may seem
- excessive, the result is a hash table using much less
- internal memory than an equivalent freely-allocated hash
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- Because the current implementation uses the table and key
- sizes for the hashing algorithm, there is no means by which
- to dynamically change the value of any of the initialization
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- Page 1 (printed 10/23/98)
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