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- .so man.macros
- .HS Tk_GetUid tkc
- .BS
- .SH NAME
- Tk_GetUid, Tk_Uid \- convert from string to unique identifier
- .SH SYNOPSIS
- .nf
- \fB#include <tk.h>\fR
- .sp
- \fB#typedef char *Tk_Uid\fR
- .sp
- Tk_Uid
- \fBTk_GetUid\fR(\fIstring\fR)
- .SH ARGUMENTS
- .AP char *string in
- String for which the corresponding unique identifer is
- desired.
- .BE
-
- .SH DESCRIPTION
- .PP
- \fBTk_GetUid\fR returns the unique identifier corresponding
- to \fIstring\fR.
- Unique identifiers are similar to atoms in Lisp, and are used
- in Tk to speed up comparisons and
- searches. A unique identifier (type Tk_Uid) is a string pointer
- and may be used anywhere that a variable of type ``char *''
- could be used. However, there is guaranteed to be exactly
- one unique identifier for any given string value. If \fBTk_GetUid\fR
- is called twice, once with string \fIa\fR and once with string
- \fIb\fR, and if \fIa\fR and \fIb\fR have the same string value
- (strcmp(a, b) == 0), then \fBTk_GetUid\fR will return exactly
- the same Tk_Uid value for each call (Tk_GetUid(a) == Tk_GetUid(b)).
- This means that variables of type
- Tk_Uid may be compared directly (x == y) without having to call
- \fBstrcmp\fR.
- In addition, the return value from \fBTk_GetUid\fR will have the
- same string value as its argument (strcmp(Tk_GetUid(a), a) == 0).
-
- .SH KEYWORDS
- atom, unique identifier
-