C Library for Perl-like Hashes Creation

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Re: C Library for Perl-like Hashes Creation by Fletch (Bishop) on Sep 06, 2006 at 14:14 UTC
The GTK+ toolkit sits on top of a C library called GLib (which can be used outside of GTK+ apps) which provides some advanced datatypes which might be what you're looking for. Of course you can always just embed Perl in your C and use the real thing.	[reply]
Re: C Library for Perl-like Hashes Creation by wojtyk (Friar) on Sep 06, 2006 at 15:04 UTC
Dunno about C, but C++ STL has rough equivalents of Perl datatypes. A perl hash is somewhat like an STL map. A perl array is somewhat like an STL vector. A perl scalar is somewhat like an STL string. Homogenization isn't as easy of course, since you have to deal with types in C/C++, but the basic dynamic data structure is essentially there.	[reply]
Re: C Library for Perl-like Hashes Creation by derby (Abbot) on Sep 06, 2006 at 15:14 UTC
The problem is there are tons of them (check out freshmeat.net). If I had to do it, I would go with what [id://fletch] said - glib -- it's the closest thing to standard. -derby update: Just saw the almost as simple as perl requirement -- yikes! Any C lib for complex data structures will only be almost as simple only if you have a very loose interpetation of the word almost (and simple).	[reply]
Re: C Library for Perl-like Hashes Creation by randyk (Parson) on Sep 06, 2006 at 23:24 UTC
For portability, and perhaps general availability, you may want to take a look at tables and arrays in Apache's APR library. The docs for APR::Table are useful for seeing the Perl equivalent.	[reply]
Re: C Library for Perl-like Hashes Creation by planetscape (Chancellor) on Sep 07, 2006 at 16:03 UTC
It's entirely possible I'm barking up the wrong tree, but if you have in mind, perhaps, some sort of data exchange, you may wish to have a look at YAML (spec). HTH, planetscape	[reply]