trie.rst

Trie

An implementation of the Trie data structure. This is an associative structure, with AbstractString keys:

t=Trie{Int}()
t["Rob"]=42
t["Roger"]=24
haskey(t,"Rob") #true
get(t,"Rob",nothing) #42
keys(t) # "Rob", "Roger"
keys(subtrie(t, "Ro")) # "b", "ger"

Constructors:

Trie(keys, values)                  # construct a Trie with the given keys and values
Trie(keys)                          # construct a Trie{Void} with the given keys and with values = nothing
Trie(kvs::AbstractVector{(K, V)})   # construct a Trie from the given vector of (key, value) pairs
Trie(kvs::Associative{K, V})        # construct a Trie from the given associative structure

This package also provides an iterator path(t::Trie, str) for looping over all the nodes encountered in searching for the given string str. This obviates much of the boilerplate code needed in writing many trie algorithms. For example, to test whether a trie contains any prefix of a given string, use:

seen_prefix(t::Trie, str) = any(v -> v.is_key, path(t, str))