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You could try splitting on '_' and creating hashes of hashes of hashes of ...

Why does VLAN_General get its own bucket. It seems as if it should go with the bucket right above it.

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Re^2: String parsing
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 25, 2010 at 19:10 UTC
    ya unfortunately the order above is completely random...but I think your idea of multiple hashes might do the trick. I'll give it a try.

    Thanks!

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      Hashes will sort out uniqueness independently of how random the input is.

      The only problem you'll run into is that things like System_Config would be split into two (unlike what you seem to want according to your sample), even if you stop splitting after 4 underscores (which is the minimum depth required for getting a separate L2 entry). So you'd have to invent some additional logic to determine how deep to split...

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        The logic would be in the displayer. If the hash has one element, join with the parent with an underscore. It works in all the OP's cases.
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