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Tk_GetUid, Tk_Uid - convert from string to unique identifier
#include <tk.h>
Tk_Uid
Tk_GetUid(string)
- char *string (in)
- String for which the corresponding unique identifier is
desired.
Tk_GetUid returns the unique identifier corresponding to
string. 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 Tk_GetUid is
called twice, once with string a and once with string
b, and if a and b have the same string value
(strcmp(a, b) == 0), then Tk_GetUid 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 strcmp. In addition, the
return value from Tk_GetUid will have the same string value
as its argument (strcmp(Tk_GetUid(a), a) == 0).
atom, unique identifier
Copyright © 1995-1997 Roger E. Critchlow Jr.
Copyright © 1990 The Regents of the University of California.
Copyright © 1994-1996 Sun Microsystems, Inc.