Since each line of the configuration file need to be parsed into "key" and "value" pairs, these pair of tokens need to be stored in another list. Can I use the following operation to store these pair of tokens?
eg.
Assumed macro_hash["key"]="some key"
macro_hash["value"]="some value"
then build a list that contains a list of macro_hash:
macro_list.append(macro)
when treverse the macro_list, it would be similar to perl:
foreach macro (in macro_list)
key = macro["key"]
value = macro["value"]
Why not just store the key, value pairs as actual keys and values of a map? Creating a list of maps seems a bit contorted here. Instead of
> macro_hash["key"]="some key"
> macro_hash["value"]="some value"
followed by creating a list of macro_hashes, just use macro_hash["some key"] = "some value"
You lose the order of values but gain much easier lookup.
Alternatively just create a list of (key, value) pairs with
macro_list = []
macro_list.append( ("some key", "some value") )which preserves the order at the expense of easy random access.
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