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# A memory-efficient, but slow, single-string structure with a hash interface.
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use strict;
use re 'taint';
use Carp qw(croak);
our @ISA = qw();
# the structure is pretty simple: it's a single string, containing
# items like so:
#
# \n KEY 0x00 VALUE 0x00 \n
# \n KEY2 0x00 VALUE2 0x00 \n
# ...
#
# undef values are represented using $UNDEF_VALUE, a hacky magic string.
# Only simple scalars can be stored; refs of any kind produce a croak().
#
# writes are slowest, reads are slow, but memory usage is very low
# compared to a "real" hash table -- in other words, this is perfect
# for infrequently-read data that has to be kept around but should
# affect memory usage as little as possible.
my $UNDEF_VALUE = "_UNDEF_\001";
###########################################################################
sub TIEHASH {
my $class = shift;
my $str = '';
return bless \$str, $class;
}
sub STORE {
my ($store, $k, $v) = @_;
$v = $UNDEF_VALUE unless defined($v);
if (ref $v) {
croak "oops! only simple scalars can be stored in a TieOneStringHash";
}
if (!defined $k) {
croak "oops! TieOneStringHash requires defined keys";
}
if ($$store !~ s{\n\Q$k\E\000.*?\000\n}
{\n$k\000$v\000\n}xgs)
{
$$store .= "\n$k\000$v\000\n";
}
1;
}
sub FETCH {
my ($store, $k) = @_;
if ($$store =~ m{\n\Q$k\E\000(.*?)\000\n}xs)
{
return $1 eq $UNDEF_VALUE ? undef : $1;
}
return;
}
sub EXISTS {
my ($store, $k) = @_;
if ($$store =~ m{\n\Q$k\E\000}xs)
{
return 1;
}
return;
}
sub DELETE {
my ($store, $k) = @_;
if ($$store =~ s{\n\Q$k\E\000(.*?)\000\n}
{}xgs)
{
return $1 eq $UNDEF_VALUE ? undef : $1;
}
return;
}
sub FIRSTKEY {
my ($store) = @_;
if ($$store =~ m{^\n(.*?)\000}s)
{
return $1;
}
return;
}
sub NEXTKEY {
my ($store, $lastk) = @_;
if ($$store =~ m{\n\Q$lastk\E\000.*?\000\n
\n(.*?)\000}xs)
{
return $1;
}
return;
}
sub CLEAR {
my ($store) = @_;
$$store = '';
}
sub SCALAR {
my ($store) = @_;
return $$store; # as a string!
}
1;