An associative-array library written in C.
Please see the blog post at: https://lawlessguy.wordpress.com/2016/02/11/a-simple-associative-array-library-in-c/
Have fun. I hope you find this little library useful.
A couple of issues had been brought to my attention. One pertained to the lack of NULL checks. Another pointed out that I should really update the function signatures so that they properly reflected the access types of the char pointers being passed into the functions.
I revamped the primary data structure, struct map_t, so that no longer served as a node in a link list. A new data structure, struct map_link_t, was created as a replacement. struct map_t now acts as an anchor point for the list. It also houses error code and error line information for errors that occur in the function calls. I didn't want to write error messages to stderr directly or anything like that, so the approach is to call a function and then to check the error_code value upon return. If the error_code entry is zero, the function should have succeeded. Please refer to the test program map_stuff.c to see how the error checks have been instrumented into the calling code.
I also added the functoin map_destroy() which will remove all of the strings in the linked list, the links, and the anchoring map_t structure.
I added a Windows batch file map_comp.bat as I no longer have a working Mac to use to compile that version of the library.
Some time ago, I overlaid the original sources for the library and I had gotten rid of the git repo that held them. The files that had been hosted here for a while were a work-in-progress that ... well ... didn't work.
I was able to pull the original sources from the Wayback Machine tonight. I had to make a few mods ... adapting the Windows-specific stuff to something that is more Mac-centric.