Re: [gtk-list] RE: glib g_hash_*() using strings as key

[Doug Alcorn <doug lathi net>]

/me puts on dunce cap.

> On 10-Mar-2000 Doug Alcorn wrote:
> > Here's the catch:  when I call g_hash_table_lookup(byevent,"some
> > key
> > text") I always get NULL back.  As an ugly hack, I can call
> > g_hash_table_foreach with the key to be looked up perform a strcmp
> > in
> > the callback function and find my event.  This, of course, negates
> > the
> > elegance of a hash.

The problem was that my lookup key _wasn't_ equal to my hash key.  I
was readin in hash keys from a database and forgot to trim off the
padded spaces.
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