&str and string are "equivalent", so use the _equiv version of functions
you need. I'll send a patch to better-document this common use case later
today.
On 2014-06-06 9:40 AM, "Diggory Hardy" <li...@dhardy.name> wrote:
> Dear List,
>
>
>
> I want to use strings as map keys, but couldn't find any mention of this
> in my understanding common use-case. The following works but as far as I
> understand requires a copy of the potential key to be made to call
> `contains()`, is this correct?
>
>
>
> let mut set: HashSet<String> = HashSet::new();
>
> set.insert( "x".into_string() );
>
> println!( "set contains x: {}", set.contains( &"x".into_string() ) );
>
>
>
> Note: I would normally be storing/testing &str types with non-static
> lifetime, but I don't think this makes a difference.
>
>
>
> I notice that HashSet<&str> also works (if lifetimes of the inserted
> strings are sufficient).
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Diggory Hardy
>
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