Re: How hash tables work

From: Martin Harvey (Demon account) (martin_at_nospam_pergolesi.demon.co.uk)
Date: 10/31/04 

Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 00:16:23 GMT

On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 09:46:14 +0000 (UTC), Peter Piper
<NoEmail@Email.com> wrote:

>Thanks J, I think maybe i have used the wrong phrase and i am trying to
>produce a index table. Basically i need to sort my records by more than
>one key field eg. Lastname, then firstname.

Would you, by any chance, also need to index data to allow for fast
searching on several fields but without combining them?

If so, and providing the fields are unique indices, then I have some
code I hacked together to maintain multiple AVL tree indexes into
something a bit like a TList.

MH.

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