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From: agate!dog.ee.lbl.gov!overload.lbl.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uop![e-mail]  (William Clark)
Organization: University of the Pacific
Subject: Table look up questions?
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   I am working on a project which needs to use a table (or some other
   date structure.  I'm open for suggestions) for a look-up and translate
   function.  The key will be a scrambled string of various characters
   and the other half (if possible) will be the translated or matching
   string.

   Example:  User inputs:  H W <enter>
         Output: Hello World

   Where "H W" is a key in the table and "Hello World" is the other
   half.

   My questions are:  Is there an algorithm already out there which
   I can use to solve this problem?  Or can someone write some brief
   code which implements loading a table and looking the data up?  Also,
   If someone could explain "Tags" in the table.  Are these used to
   restrict look up areas?  (i.e. if the above example had a tag of "H"
   on the key, would this restrict the look up area to the H's only?)

   I should have mentioned, I am new to the ICON programming language and
   have placed an order for _The_Icon_Programming_Language_, 2nd ed.

   Thanks.

   William R. Clark
   University of the Pacific
   [e-mail]