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     hsearch(3)                 DG/UX 4.30                  hsearch(3)



     NAME
          hsearch, hcreate, hdestroy - manage hash search tables

     SYNOPSIS
          #include <search.h>

          ENTRY *hsearch (item, action)
          ENTRY item;
          ACTION action;

          int hcreate (nel)
          unsigned nel;

          void hdestroy ( )

     DESCRIPTION
          Hsearch is a hash-table search routine generalized from
          Knuth (6.4) Algorithm D.  It returns a pointer into a hash
          table indicating where an entry can be found.

          Item is a structure of type ENTRY (defined in the <search.h>
          header file) containing two pointers:  item.key points to
          the comparison key, and item.data points to any other data
          to be associated with that key.  (Pointers to types other
          than character should be cast to pointer-to-character.)

          Action is a member of an enumeration type ACTION indicating
          what to do with the entry if it cannot be found in the
          table.  ENTER indicates that the item should be inserted in
          the table at an appropriate point.  FIND indicates that no
          entry should be made.  Unsuccessful resolution is indicated
          by the return of a NULL pointer.

          Hcreate allocates space for the table, and must be called
          before hsearch is used.  Nel is an estimate of the maximum
          number of entries that the table will contain.  This number
          may be adjusted upward by the algorithm in order to obtain
          certain mathematically favorable circumstances.

          Hdestroy destroys the search table, and may be followed by
          another call to hcreate.

     NOTES
          Hsearch uses open addressing with a multiplicative hash
          function.  However, its source code has many other options.
          If you have the source code, then you can select these
          options by compiling the hsearch source with the following
          symbols defined to the preprocessor:

               DIV      Use remainder-modulo-tablesize as the hash
                        function instead of the multiplicative
                        algorithm.



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               USCR     Use a user supplied comparison routine to see
                        if an entry is in the table.  The routine
                        should be named hcompar and should behave like
                        strcmp (see string(3C)).

               CHAINED  Use a linked list to resolve collisions.
                        These are the options for CHAINED:

                        START     Place new entries at the beginning
                                  of the linked list (default is at
                                  the end).

                        SORTUP    Keep the linked list sorted by key
                                  in ascending order.

                        SORTDOWN  Keep the linked list sorted by key
                                  in descending order.

          There are also preprocessor flags to get debugging printout
          (-DDEBUG) and to include a test driver in the calling
          routine (-DDRIVER).

     EXAMPLE
          The following example will read in strings followed by two
          numbers and store them in a hash table, discarding
          duplicates.  It will then read in strings, find the matching
          entry in the hash table, and print it out.

               #include <stdio.h>
               #include <search.h>

               struct info {       /* this is the info stored in the table */
                    int age, room; /* other than the key. */
               };
               #define NUM_EMPL    5000    /* # of elements in search table */

               main( )
               {
                    /* space to store strings */
                    char string_space[NUM_EMPL*20];
                    /* space to store employee info */
                    struct info info_space[NUM_EMPL];
                    /* next avail space in string_space */
                    char *str_ptr = string_space;
                    /* next avail space in info_space */
                    struct info *info_ptr = info_space;
                    ENTRY item, *found_item, *hsearch( );
                    /* name to look for in table */
                    char name_to_find[30];
                    int i = 0;

                    /* create table */



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                    (void) hcreate(NUM_EMPL);
                    while (scanf("%s%d%d", str_ptr, &info_ptr->age,
                           &info_ptr->room) != EOF && i++ < NUM_EMPL) {
                         /* put info in structure, and structure in item */
                         item.key = str_ptr;
                         item.data = (char *)info_ptr;
                         str_ptr += strlen(str_ptr) + 1;
                         info_ptr++;
                         /* put item into table */
                         (void) hsearch(item, ENTER);
                    }

                    /* access table */
                    item.key = name_to_find;
                    while (scanf("%s", item.key) != EOF) {
                        if ((found_item = hsearch(item, FIND)) != NULL) {
                         /* if item is in the table */
                         (void)printf("found %s, age = %d, room = %d\n",
                              found_item->key,
                              ((struct info *)found_item->data)->age,
                              ((struct info *)found_item->data)->room);
                        } else {
                         (void)printf("no such employee %s\n",
                              name_to_find)
                        }
                    }
               }

     SEE ALSO
          bsearch(3C), lsearch(3C), malloc(3C), malloc(3X),
          string(3C), tsearch(3C).

     DIAGNOSTICS
          Hsearch returns a NULL pointer if the action is FIND and the
          item could not be found, or if the action is ENTER and the
          table is full.

          Hcreate returns zero if it cannot allocate enough space for
          the table.

     WARNING
          Hsearch and hcreate use malloc(3C) to allocate space.

     BUGS
          Only one hash search table may be active at once.










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