You're welcome. Note that your need of having a structure which
is
both associative and ordered is, if not unheard-of, at least
somewhat
uncommon.
I'm parsing program blocks from a proprietary HW/SW system. They
provide the data in the form of:
Somegroupname/Someblockname
someparam=value
anotherparam=value
...
otherparam=value
end
Somegroupname/Somediffblockname
someparam=value
anotherparam=value
...
otherparam=value
end
Someothergroupname/Someotherblockname
p1=value
p2=value
...
px=value
end
The data is in an ascii text file.
I need to be able to search it by group/block/parameter.
I need to be able to maintain group/block order.
There are ~hundred diff block types where the params and order of
params are known...though I would rather not create all of these
structures or lists ahead of time.
My greatest need at this point is to compare two files block by
block. The blocks may be in diff orders between the files but
the params of each block type would always be the same in the
same order.
So compare groups, blocks within groups, and the values of each
param for matching group/block names.
