what you want can be done with TObjectTable.
Cheers, Fons.
>
> I would like to use a TMap in a way that I would use an STL map: I have
> an ascii file I am parsing and want to use the map to find out whether
> an entry (an int) has occurred already.
>
> With an STL map, I would use the find on the key (which would be the
> int) and be told if it is already in the map. With TMap I must create an
> object inheriting from TObject which contains the int. TMap's FindObject
> requires a pointer to the key. But I would have to make a new key object
> to hold the int; then it wouldn't be in the TMap since it is new.
>
> Is TMap not meant to be used in this way?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Richard
>
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