Variables of the hash type allow you to work with associative arrays or hash tables. Each item in such an array corresponds to a unique key string. Items are addresses by specifying the corresponding key strings.

Methods

Operations

Operations defined for the variable of hash type are listed below. The second column contains possible statements where typename is a variable or an expression of the specified type.
 

Operation	Syntax	Return type	Comments
Variable description	hash name hash name of type	-	Hash array description. If no item type is specified, uint is used.
[]	hash["key string"]	item type	Getting an item by a key string. In case there is no item, it will be created automatically.
*	* hash	uint	Get the number of items.
foreach	Looking through all items with the help of the foreach operator. foreach cur, myhash { ... }
foreach	Looking through all keys with the help of the foreach operator. foreach cur, myhash.keys { ... }

Methods

hash.clear	Clearing a hash array
hash.create	Creating an item with this key
hash.del	Deleting an item
hash.find	Finding an item
hash.ignorecase	Ignoring the letter case of keys
hash.sethashsize	Set the size of a value table

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