On Wednesday, 6 June 2012 at 17:05:35 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Wednesday, June 06, 2012 16:04:14 Paul wrote:
I have and array string[string][string][string] that works
great for everything I need except that they (assoc. arrays)
don't maintain an order. I need to maintain the order of entry.
Are there any work arounds that others have used? I saw some
tricks in the book for sorting a single dimensional assoc.
array. Thanks to all!
If you want an ordered map, then use
std.container.RedBlackTree. It's a little bit annoying to use
as a map (you basically have to use it as a set of pairs/tuples
which are ordered on their first member), but it's quite doable
(and is what C++'s STL does internally with std::map). Chaining
them like you seem to be trying to do though would probably get
ugly though.
Agreed, it would get ugly and looks like difficult right off the
bat, since RedBlackTree's are classes you'll need to initialize
them on each level, or have a general purpose one with two
purposes and they chain internally... Hmmm... maybe...
