Yes, but I want something lean and fast, not dealing with file-size chunks.  Example: a German-English dictionary.  I give it a German word, it gives me back the English.  It can be continually updated.

Henry Rich

On 11/17/2019 10:02 PM, 'Jim Russell' via Programming wrote:
AFAIR, wasn't that a feature built into the (lib 1) component files addon? I 
don't recall using a separate dictionary function.

On Nov 17, 2019, at 9:49 PM, Henry Rich <henryhr...@gmail.com> wrote:

The datatype I really want is a directory object that acts as an efficient and 
easy-to-use associative memory.  You put key/values in and then retrieve a 
value by presenting its key.  Has anyone written an addon for that?
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