I have been looking for a way to use a double hash table in Ocaml, but cannot find it. What I want to do is something like:
Hash: (("a",1), ("b",2), ...)
, where all the mentioned elements are not repeated, for instance, "a" will not appear again, nor 2.
So if I find an array like [1, "b", 2, "a",...]
I can replace those appearings of the numbers and letters by its keys or values: ["a",2,"b",1,...]
.
Thanks!
The library containers-data has CCBijections.
If you want a mutable version, you can pair two hash tables with
module Table: sig
type (!'left, !'right) t
(* or before OCaml 4.12:
type (!'left, !'right) t
*)
val add: 'left ->'right -> ('left,'right) t -> unit
...
end = struct
type ('a,'b) t = {left:('a,'b) Hashtbl.t; right:('b,'a) Hashtbl.t }
let add left right tbl =
Hashtbl.add tbl.left left right;
Hashtbl.add tbl.right right left
...
end