Check the existence of a string in a string pool (table)

[moldovan_catalin]

Hi everyone,

I have a problem finding out if a string already exists in a string pool's opened tables. It seems that there is no support in the String Pools API for such thing. Has anybody encountered the problem and found a solution for that? Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Catalin

[bdonegan]

A quick poke around the docs isn't clear on the matter. The best question I guess would be asking what it is exactly you are trying to do?

[stenlik]

Hi,

I think some Find() method is missing here... but why you need something like this? When you call
RString new_String = stringPool.OpenStringL( _L8("new_string") );
the newly used string is added to string pool, so you do not need to care about it.

BR
STeN

[moldovan_catalin]

Well, I was intending to use a string pool as a dictionary for a Json parser and wanted to use the dictionary to verify if unwanted object names where found during parsing. Anyways, I guess a solution would be to open the string to the pool using OpenStringL and verify the OriginalTableRef on the returned string. If it is null then the string was not in the dictionary. A find method would have been nice for situations like this one.

[wizard_hu_]

Normally this would be a use-case for RPtrHashSet. For some strange, and probably super-secret reason it is not present in the S60 SDK-s. If you like strange hacks, you can get the headers from a UIQ SDK, they are reported to work.