note
	description: "[
		Hash tables, used to store items identified by string keys that are compared with or without case sensitivity.
	]"
	legal: "See notice at end of class."
	status: "See notice at end of class."
	warning: "[
		Modifying an object used as a key by an item present in a table will
		cause incorrect behavior. If you will be modifying key objects,
		pass a clone, not the object itself, or an immutable object, as key argument to
		put and replace_key.
	]"
	date: "$Date: 2016-12-08 10:30:24 +0000 (Thu, 08 Dec 2016) $"
	revision: "$Revision: 99662 $"

class interface
	STRING_TABLE [G]

create 
	make,
	make_equal,
	make_caseless,
	make_equal_caseless

feature -- Hash code

	hash_code_of (a_key: READABLE_STRING_GENERAL): INTEGER_32
			-- Hash code value
	
feature -- Status report

	is_case_insensitive: BOOLEAN
			-- Ignoring case when comparing keys?
			-- (Default: False)
	
feature -- Comparison

	same_keys (a_search_key, a_key: READABLE_STRING_GENERAL): BOOLEAN
			-- Is a_search_key the same key as a_key ?

	is_equal (other: like Current): BOOLEAN
			-- Does table contain the same information as other?
	
note
	copyright: "Copyright (c) 1984-2016, Eiffel Software and others"
	license: "Eiffel Forum License v2 (see http://www.eiffel.com/licensing/forum.txt)"
	source: "[
		Eiffel Software
		5949 Hollister Ave., Goleta, CA 93117 USA
		Telephone 805-685-1006, Fax 805-685-6869
		Website http://www.eiffel.com
		Customer support http://support.eiffel.com
	]"

end -- class STRING_TABLE

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