From: dgd at list.imaginary.com (Erwin Harte)
Date: Wed Oct 10 10:03:01 2001
Subject: [DGD] mapping question

On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 04:44:39PM +0200, Pete wrote:
> Is there a way how to access mapping elements by sequential 
> index? Something other, faster, then using map_indices() and then 
> iterating them and use them as index for mapping.

Doesn't get any faster than this:

  int i, sz;
  mixed *ind, *val;

  sz = map_sizeof(map);
  ind = map_indices(map);
  val = map_values(map);
  for (i = 0; i < sz; i++) {
      /* Do whatever you want with the ind[i] and val[i] pair. */
  }

Hope that helps,

Erwin.
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Erwin Harte