clsHashTable.cls

VERSION 1.0 CLASS
BEGIN
  MultiUse = -1  'True
  Persistable = 0  'NotPersistable
  DataBindingBehavior = 0  'vbNone
  DataSourceBehavior  = 0  'vbNone
  MTSTransactionMode  = 0  'NotAnMTSObject
END
Attribute VB_Name = "clsHashTable"
Attribute VB_GlobalNameSpace = False
Attribute VB_Creatable = True
Attribute VB_PredeclaredId = False
Attribute VB_Exposed = False
'----------------------------------------------
' HASHTABLE class module
'
' This class implements a hashtable, a structure that offers many
' of the features of a collectior or dictionary, and is often
' even faster than the built-in collection.
'
' NOTE: must make Item the default member, using the Tools | Procedure
' Attributes dialog
'
' Usage:
'   Dim ht As New HashTable
'   ht.SetSize 10000           ' initial number of slots (the higher,
'  the better)
'
'   ' enforce case-insensitive key search
'   ht.IgnoreCase = True
'   ' add values
'   ht.Add "key", value        ' add a value associated to a key
'   ' count how many values are in the table
'   Print ht.Count
'   ' read/write a value
'   Print ht("key")
'   ht("key") = newValue
'
'   ' remove a value
'   ht.Remove "key"
'   ' remove all values
'   ht.RemoveAll
'   ' check whether a value exists
'   If ht.Exists("key") Then ...
'
'   ' get the array of keys and values
'   Dim keys() As String, values() As Variant
'   keys() = ht.Keys
'   values() = ht.Values
'
'----------------------------------------------

 

' default values
Const DEFAULT_HASHSIZE = 1024
Const DEFAULT_LISTSIZE = 2048
Const DEFAULT_CHUNKSIZE = 1024

Option Explicit

Private Type SlotType
    Key As String
    Value As Variant
    nextItem As Long      ' 0 if last item
End Type

' for each hash code this array holds the first element
' in slotTable() with the corresponding hash code
Dim hashTbl() As Long
' the array that holds the data
Dim slotTable() As SlotType

' pointer to first free slot
Dim FreeNdx As Long

' size of hash table
Dim m_HashSize As Long
' size of slot table
Dim m_ListSize As Long
' chunk size
Dim m_ChunkSize As Long
' items in the slot table
Dim m_Count As Long

' member variable for IgnoreCase property
Public m_IgnoreCase As Boolean

' True if keys are searched in case-unsensitive mode
' this can be assigned to only when the hash table is empty

Property Get IgnoreCase() As Boolean
    IgnoreCase = m_IgnoreCase
End Property

Property Let IgnoreCase(ByVal newValue As Boolean)
    If m_Count Then
        Err.Raise 1001, , "The Hash Table isn't empty"
    End If
    m_IgnoreCase = newValue
End Property

' initialize the hash table

Sub SetSize(ByVal HashSize As Long, Optional ByVal ListSize As Long, _
    Optional ByVal ChunkSize As Long)
    ' provide defaults
    If ListSize <= 0 Then ListSize = m_ListSize
    If ChunkSize <= 0 Then ChunkSize = m_ChunkSize
    ' save size values
    m_HashSize = HashSize
    m_ListSize = ListSize
    m_ChunkSize = ChunkSize
    m_Count = 0
    ' rebuild tables
    FreeNdx = 0
    ReDim hashTbl(0 To HashSize - 1) As Long
    ReDim slotTable(0) As SlotType
    ExpandSlotTable m_ListSize
End Sub

' check whether an item is in the hash table

Function Exists(Key As String) As Boolean
    Exists = GetSlotIndex(Key) <> 0
End Function

' add a new element to the hash table

Sub Add(Key As String, Value As Variant)
    Dim ndx As Long, Create As Boolean
    
    ' get the index to the slot where the value is
    ' (allocate a new slot if necessary)
    Create = True
    ndx = GetSlotIndex(Key, Create)
    
    If Create Then
        ' the item was actually added
        If IsObject(Value) Then
            Set slotTable(ndx).Value = Value
        Else
            slotTable(ndx).Value = Value
        End If
    Else
        ' raise error "This key is already associated with an item of this
        ' collection"
        Err.Raise 457
    End If
End Sub

' the value associated to a key
' (empty if not found)

Property Get Item(Key As String) As Variant
    Dim ndx As Long
    ' get the index to the slot where the value is
    ndx = GetSlotIndex(Key)
    If ndx = 0 Then
        ' return Empty if not found
    ElseIf IsObject(slotTable(ndx).Value) Then
        Set Item = slotTable(ndx).Value
    Else
        Item = slotTable(ndx).Value
    End If
End Property

Property Let Item(Key As String, Value As Variant)
    Dim ndx As Long
    ' get the index to the slot where the value is
    ' (allocate a new slot if necessary)
    ndx = GetSlotIndex(Key, True)
    ' store the value
    slotTable(ndx).Value = Value
End Property

Property Set Item(Key As String, Value As Object)
    Dim ndx As Long
    ' get the index to the slot where the value is
    ' (allocate a new slot if necessary)
    ndx = GetSlotIndex(Key, True)
    ' store the value
    Set slotTable(ndx).Value = Value
End Property

' remove an item from the hash table

Sub Remove(Key As String)
    Dim ndx As Long, HCode As Long, LastNdx As Long
    ndx = GetSlotIndex(Key, False, HCode, LastNdx)
    ' raise error if no such element
    If ndx = 0 Then Chat.AddChat "Hash Key not found: " & Key, vbBlue
    
    If LastNdx Then
        ' this isn't the first item in the slotTable() array
        slotTable(LastNdx).nextItem = slotTable(ndx).nextItem
    ElseIf slotTable(ndx).nextItem Then
        ' this is the first item in the slotTable() array
        ' and is followed by one or more items
        hashTbl(HCode) = slotTable(ndx).nextItem
    Else
        ' this is the only item in the slotTable() array
        ' for this hash code
        hashTbl(HCode) = 0
    End If
    
    ' put the element back in the free list
    slotTable(ndx).nextItem = FreeNdx
    FreeNdx = ndx
    ' we have deleted an item
    m_Count = m_Count - 1
    
End Sub

' remove all items from the hash table

Sub RemoveAll()
    SetSize m_HashSize, m_ListSize, m_ChunkSize
End Sub

' the number of items in the hash table

Property Get Count() As Long
    Count = m_Count
End Property

' the array of all keys
' (VB5 users: convert return type to Variant)

Property Get Keys() As Variant()
    Dim i As Long, ndx As Long
    Dim n As Long
    ReDim res(0 To m_Count - 1) As Variant
    
    For i = 0 To m_HashSize - 1
        ' take the pointer from the hash table
        ndx = hashTbl(i)
        ' walk the slottable() array
        Do While ndx
            res(n) = slotTable(ndx).Key
            n = n + 1
            ndx = slotTable(ndx).nextItem
        Loop
    Next
        
    ' assign to the result
    Keys = res()
End Property

' the array of all values
' (VB5 users: convert return type to Variant)

Property Get Values() As Variant()
    Dim i As Long, ndx As Long
    Dim n As Long
    ReDim res(0 To m_Count - 1) As Variant
    
    For i = 0 To m_HashSize - 1
        ' take the pointer from the hash table
        ndx = hashTbl(i)
        ' walk the slottable() array
        Do While ndx
            res(n) = slotTable(ndx).Value
            n = n + 1
            ndx = slotTable(ndx).nextItem
        Loop
    Next
        
    ' assign to the result
    Values = res()
End Property

'-----------------------------------------
' Public procedures
'-----------------------------------------

Public Sub Class_Initialize()
    ' initialize the tables at default size
    SetSize DEFAULT_HASHSIZE, DEFAULT_LISTSIZE, DEFAULT_CHUNKSIZE
End Sub

' expand the slotTable() array

Public Sub ExpandSlotTable(ByVal numEls As Long)
    Dim newFreeNdx As Long, i As Long
    newFreeNdx = UBound(slotTable) + 1
    
    ReDim Preserve slotTable(0 To UBound(slotTable) + numEls) As SlotType
    ' create the linked list of free items
    For i = newFreeNdx To UBound(slotTable)
        slotTable(i).nextItem = i + 1
    Next
    ' overwrite the last (wrong) value
    slotTable(UBound(slotTable)).nextItem = FreeNdx
    ' we now know where to pick the first free item
    FreeNdx = newFreeNdx
End Sub

' return the hash code of a string

Public Function HashCode(Key As String) As Long
    Dim lastEl As Long, i As Long
    
    ' copy ansi codes into an array of long
    lastEl = (Len(Key) - 1) \ 4
    ReDim codes(lastEl) As Long
    ' this also converts from Unicode to ANSI
    CopyMemory codes(0), ByVal Key, Len(Key)
    
    ' XOR the ANSI codes of all characters
    For i = 0 To lastEl
        HashCode = HashCode Xor codes(i)
    Next
    
End Function

' get the index where an item is stored or 0 if not found
' if Create = True the item is created
'
' on exit Create=True only if a slot has been actually created

Public Function GetSlotIndex(ByVal Key As String, Optional Create As Boolean, _
    Optional HCode As Long, Optional LastNdx As Long) As Long
    Dim ndx As Long
    
    ' raise error if invalid key
    If Len(Key) = 0 Then Err.Raise 1001, , "Invalid key"
    
    ' keep case-unsensitiveness into account
    If m_IgnoreCase Then Key = UCase$(Key)
    ' get the index in the hashTbl() array
    HCode = HashCode(Key) Mod m_HashSize
    ' get the pointer to the slotTable() array
    ndx = hashTbl(HCode)
    
    ' exit if there is no item with that hash code
    Do While ndx
        ' compare key with actual value
        If slotTable(ndx).Key = Key Then Exit Do
        ' remember last pointer
        LastNdx = ndx
        ' check the next item
        ndx = slotTable(ndx).nextItem
    Loop
    
    ' create a new item if not there
    If ndx = 0 And Create Then
        ndx = GetFreeSlot()
        PrepareSlot ndx, Key, HCode, LastNdx
    Else
        ' signal that no item has been created
        Create = False
    End If
    ' this is the return value
    GetSlotIndex = ndx

End Function

' return the first free slot

Public Function GetFreeSlot() As Long
    ' allocate new memory if necessary
    If FreeNdx = 0 Then ExpandSlotTable m_ChunkSize
    ' use the first slot
    GetFreeSlot = FreeNdx
    ' update the pointer to the first slot
    FreeNdx = slotTable(GetFreeSlot).nextItem
    ' signal this as the end of the linked list
    slotTable(GetFreeSlot).nextItem = 0
    ' we have one more item
    m_Count = m_Count + 1
End Function

' assign a key and value to a given slot

Public Sub PrepareSlot(ByVal Index As Long, ByVal Key As String, _
    ByVal HCode As Long, ByVal LastNdx As Long)
    ' assign the key
    ' keep case-sensitiveness into account
    If m_IgnoreCase Then Key = UCase$(Key)
    slotTable(Index).Key = Key
    
    If LastNdx Then
        ' this is the successor of another slot
        slotTable(LastNdx).nextItem = Index
    Else
        ' this is the first slot for a given hash code
        hashTbl(HCode) = Index
    End If
End Sub