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+ <h1 id="label-Announcement">Announcement</h1>
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+ <p>Critbit version 0.5 has been realeased. A crit bit tree, also known as a
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+ Binary Patricia Trie is a trie (<a
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+ href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trie">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trie</a>),
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+ also called digital tree and sometimes radix tree or prefix tree (as they
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+ can be searched by prefixes), is an ordered tree data structure that is
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+ used to store a dynamic set or associative array where the keys are usually
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+ strings. Unlike a binary search tree, no node in the tree stores the key
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+ associated with that node; instead, its position in the tree defines the
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+ key with which it is associated. All the descendants of a node have a
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+ common prefix of the string associated with that node, and the root is
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+ associated with the empty string. Values are normally not associated with
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+ every node, only with leaves and some inner nodes that correspond to keys
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+ of interest. For the space-optimized presentation of prefix tree, see
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+ compact prefix tree.</p>
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+ <p>[The following is from: <a
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+ href="http://cr.yp.to/critbit.html">cr.yp.to/critbit.html</a>]</p>
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+
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+ <p>A crit-bit tree supports the following operations (and more!) at high
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+ speed:</p>
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+ <ul><li>
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+ <p>See whether a string x is in the tree.</p>
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+ </li><li>
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+ <p>Add x to the tree.</p>
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+ </li><li>
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+ <p>Remove x from the tree.</p>
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+ </li><li>
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+ <p>Find the lexicographically smallest string in the tree larger than x, if
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+ there is one.</p>
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+ </li><li>
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+ <p>Find all suffixes of x in the tree, i.e., all strings in the tree that have
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+ x as a prefix. Of course, this can take a long time if there are many such
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+ strings, but each string is found quickly.</p>
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+ </li></ul>
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+ <p>A crit-bit tree can be used as a high-speed associative array. For example,
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+ an array mapping 54 to 1, 19 to 2, 99 to 3, 85 to 4, and 88 to 5 can be
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+ stored as a crit-bit tree containing 54=1, 19=2, 99=3, 85=4, and 88=5. The
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+ smallest string in the crit-bit tree larger than 85= is 85=4.</p>
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+ <p>The standard strategy for many years has been to store searchable data sets
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+ as hash tables, in applications that need exact searches but not
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+ lexicographic searches; or as heaps, in applications that need to search
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+ for the minimum; or as AVL trees, red-black trees, etc. in applications
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+ that do not fit the restrictions of hash tables and heaps.</p>
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+ <p>In Python, for example, the built-in “dict” data type is a hash table. Hash
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+ tables don&#39;t provide fast access to the smallest entry, so there&#39;s
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+ also a standard “heapq” library providing heaps. Heaps don&#39;t provide
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+ fast lookups of other entries, so there are various add-on libraries
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+ providing AVL trees and so on. A programmer who&#39;s happy creating a
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+ “dict” will simply do so, but then another programmer who wants fancier
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+ operations on the resulting database has to do an expensive conversion of
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+ the “dict” to a fancier data structure.</p>
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+ <p>I (D. J. Bernstein) have become convinced that this strategy should change.
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+ The revised strategy is much simpler: there should be one fundamental
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+ set-storage type, namely a crit-bit tree. Here&#39;s how a crit-bit tree
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+ stacks up against the competition:</p>
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+ <p>A hash table supports insertion, deletion, and exact searches. A crit-bit
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+ tree supports insertion, deletion, exact searches, and ordered operations
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+ such as finding the minimum. Another advantage is that a crit-bit tree
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+ guarantees good performance: it doesn&#39;t have any tricky slowdowns for
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+ unusual (or malicious) data.</p>
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+ <p>A heap supports insertion, deletion, and finding the minimum. A crit-bit
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+ tree supports insertion, deletion, finding the minimum, and exact searches,
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+ and general suffix searches.</p>
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+ <p>General-purpose comparison-based structures such as AVL trees and B-trees
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+ support exactly the same operations as a crit-bit tree. However, crit-bit
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+ trees are faster and simpler, especially for variable-length strings.
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+ B-trees advertise a memory layout that&#39;s friendly to your disk, but
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+ with less effort one can use a similar “clustering” organization for nodes
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+ in a crit-bit tree.</p>
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+ <p>If you&#39;re designing a programming language, imagine how much happier
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+ your programmers will be if your basic built-in data type allows not just
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+ looking up x, but also enumerating the strings after x in sorted order. You
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+ can&#39;t do this with hash tables. You could do it with an AVL tree, but
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+ your operations will be simpler and faster if you use a crit-bit tree.</p>
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+ <h1 id="label-Critbit+Interface">Critbit Interface</h1>
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+ <p>This version of Critbit implements a very similar interface as the Hash
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+ interface with minor modifications when it makes sense to do so. Besides
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+ implementing the Hash interface it also provides features for searching for
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+ keys that have a common prefix that are not possible with hashes.</p>
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+ <p>Here is an example of using Critbit:</p>
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+ <pre class="code ruby"><code class="ruby"> <span class='id identifier rubyid_crit'>crit</span> <span class='op'>=</span> <span class='const'>Critbit</span><span class='period'>.</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_new'>new</span>
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+ <span class='comment'># crit is space efficient and stores prefixes only once and can be used to
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+ </span> <span class='comment'># find only strings that match a certain prefix
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+ </span> <span class='id identifier rubyid_items'>items</span> <span class='op'>=</span> <span class='lbracket'>[</span><span class='tstring'><span class='tstring_beg'>&quot;</span><span class='tstring_content'>u</span><span class='tstring_end'>&quot;</span></span><span class='comma'>,</span> <span class='tstring'><span class='tstring_beg'>&quot;</span><span class='tstring_content'>un</span><span class='tstring_end'>&quot;</span></span><span class='comma'>,</span> <span class='tstring'><span class='tstring_beg'>&quot;</span><span class='tstring_content'>unh</span><span class='tstring_end'>&quot;</span></span><span class='comma'>,</span> <span class='tstring'><span class='tstring_beg'>&quot;</span><span class='tstring_content'>uni</span><span class='tstring_end'>&quot;</span></span><span class='comma'>,</span> <span class='tstring'><span class='tstring_beg'>&quot;</span><span class='tstring_content'>unj</span><span class='tstring_end'>&quot;</span></span><span class='comma'>,</span> <span class='tstring'><span class='tstring_beg'>&quot;</span><span class='tstring_content'>unim</span><span class='tstring_end'>&quot;</span></span><span class='comma'>,</span> <span class='tstring'><span class='tstring_beg'>&quot;</span><span class='tstring_content'>unin</span><span class='tstring_end'>&quot;</span></span><span class='comma'>,</span> <span class='tstring'><span class='tstring_beg'>&quot;</span><span class='tstring_content'>unio</span><span class='tstring_end'>&quot;</span></span><span class='comma'>,</span>
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+ <span class='tstring'><span class='tstring_beg'>&quot;</span><span class='tstring_content'>uninc</span><span class='tstring_end'>&quot;</span></span><span class='comma'>,</span> <span class='tstring'><span class='tstring_beg'>&quot;</span><span class='tstring_content'>unind</span><span class='tstring_end'>&quot;</span></span><span class='comma'>,</span> <span class='tstring'><span class='tstring_beg'>&quot;</span><span class='tstring_content'>unine</span><span class='tstring_end'>&quot;</span></span><span class='comma'>,</span> <span class='tstring'><span class='tstring_beg'>&quot;</span><span class='tstring_content'>unindd</span><span class='tstring_end'>&quot;</span></span><span class='comma'>,</span> <span class='tstring'><span class='tstring_beg'>&quot;</span><span class='tstring_content'>uninde</span><span class='tstring_end'>&quot;</span></span><span class='comma'>,</span> <span class='tstring'><span class='tstring_beg'>&quot;</span><span class='tstring_content'>unindf</span><span class='tstring_end'>&quot;</span></span><span class='comma'>,</span>
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+ <span class='tstring'><span class='tstring_beg'>&quot;</span><span class='tstring_content'>unindew</span><span class='tstring_end'>&quot;</span></span><span class='comma'>,</span> <span class='tstring'><span class='tstring_beg'>&quot;</span><span class='tstring_content'>unindex</span><span class='tstring_end'>&quot;</span></span><span class='comma'>,</span> <span class='tstring'><span class='tstring_beg'>&quot;</span><span class='tstring_content'>unindey</span><span class='tstring_end'>&quot;</span></span><span class='comma'>,</span> <span class='tstring'><span class='tstring_beg'>&quot;</span><span class='tstring_content'>a</span><span class='tstring_end'>&quot;</span></span><span class='comma'>,</span> <span class='tstring'><span class='tstring_beg'>&quot;</span><span class='tstring_content'>z</span><span class='tstring_end'>&quot;</span></span><span class='rbracket'>]</span>
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+
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+ <span class='comment'># add items to the container
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+ </span> <span class='id identifier rubyid_items'>items</span><span class='period'>.</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_each'>each</span> <span class='kw'>do</span> <span class='op'>|</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_item'>item</span><span class='op'>|</span>
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+ <span class='id identifier rubyid_crit'>crit</span><span class='lbracket'>[</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_item'>item</span><span class='rbracket'>]</span> <span class='op'>=</span> <span class='id identifier rubyid_item'>item</span>
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+ <span class='kw'>end</span>
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+
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+ <span class='comment'># Does each for all elements in the critbit
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+ </span> <span class='id identifier rubyid_print'>print</span> <span class='tstring'><span class='tstring_beg'>&quot;</span><span class='tstring_content'>[</span><span class='tstring_end'>&quot;</span></span>
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+ <span class='id identifier rubyid_crit'>crit</span><span class='period'>.</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_each'>each</span> <span class='kw'>do</span> <span class='op'>|</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_key'>key</span><span class='comma'>,</span> <span class='id identifier rubyid_value'>value</span><span class='op'>|</span>
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+ <span class='id identifier rubyid_print'>print</span> <span class='tstring'><span class='tstring_beg'>&quot;</span><span class='tstring_content'>[</span><span class='embexpr_beg'>#{</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_key'>key</span><span class='embexpr_end'>}</span><span class='tstring_content'>, </span><span class='embexpr_beg'>#{</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_value'>value</span><span class='embexpr_end'>}</span><span class='tstring_content'>] </span><span class='tstring_end'>&quot;</span></span>
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+ <span class='kw'>end</span>
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+ <span class='id identifier rubyid_print'>print</span> <span class='tstring'><span class='tstring_beg'>&quot;</span><span class='tstring_content'>]</span><span class='tstring_end'>&quot;</span></span>
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+ </code></pre>
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+ <p>Prints:</p>
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+ <pre class="code ruby"><code class="ruby"> [[a, a] [u, u] [un, un] [unh, unh] [uni, uni] [unim, unim] [unin, unin] [uninc, uninc]
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+ [unind, unind] [unindd, unindd] [uninde, uninde] [unindew, unindew] [unindex, unindex]
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+ [unindey, unindey] [unindf, unindf] [unine, unine] [unio, unio] [unj, unj] [z, z] ].</code></pre>
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+ <p>Observe that all elements are printed in sorted order, this is because
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+ critbit is naturally sorted. This is one of the benefits of critbit over
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+ hashes.</p>
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+ <p>Critbits also allow for doing prefix traversal. In the next code example
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+ the critbit is traversed by only selecting strings that have “unin” as
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+ prefix, by passing the prefix as argument to &#39;each&#39;:</p>
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+
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+ <pre class="code ruby"><code class="ruby"> # Does each for all elements in the critbit
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+ print &quot;[&quot;
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+ crit.each(&quot;unin&quot;) do |key, value|
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+ print &quot;[#{key}, #{value}] &quot;
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+ end
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+ print &quot;]&quot;
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+ [[unin, unin] [uninc, uninc] [unind, unind] [unindd, unindd] [uninde, uninde]
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+ [unindew, unindew] [unindex, unindex] [unindey, unindey] [unindf, unindf]
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+ [unine, unine] ].
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+ </code></pre>
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+ <p>A critbit prefix can also be set by using method &#39;prefix=&#39;:</p>
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+ <pre class="code ruby"><code class="ruby"> <span class='id identifier rubyid_crit'>crit</span><span class='period'>.</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_prefix'>prefix</span> <span class='op'>=</span> <span class='tstring'><span class='tstring_beg'>&quot;</span><span class='tstring_content'>unin</span><span class='tstring_end'>&quot;</span></span>
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+ <span class='comment'># Does each for all elements in the critbit
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+ </span> <span class='id identifier rubyid_print'>print</span> <span class='tstring'><span class='tstring_beg'>&quot;</span><span class='tstring_content'>[</span><span class='tstring_end'>&quot;</span></span>
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+ <span class='id identifier rubyid_crit'>crit</span><span class='period'>.</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_each'>each</span> <span class='kw'>do</span> <span class='op'>|</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_key'>key</span><span class='comma'>,</span> <span class='id identifier rubyid_value'>value</span><span class='op'>|</span>
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+ <span class='id identifier rubyid_print'>print</span> <span class='tstring'><span class='tstring_beg'>&quot;</span><span class='tstring_content'>[</span><span class='embexpr_beg'>#{</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_key'>key</span><span class='embexpr_end'>}</span><span class='tstring_content'>, </span><span class='embexpr_beg'>#{</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_value'>value</span><span class='embexpr_end'>}</span><span class='tstring_content'>] </span><span class='tstring_end'>&quot;</span></span>
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+ <span class='kw'>end</span>
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+ <span class='id identifier rubyid_print'>print</span> <span class='tstring'><span class='tstring_beg'>&quot;</span><span class='tstring_content'>]</span><span class='tstring_end'>&quot;</span></span>
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+ </code></pre>
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+ <h1 id="label-Critbit+installation+and+download%3A">Critbit installation and download:</h1>
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+ <ul><li>
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+ <p>Install Jruby</p>
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+ <p>jruby –S gem install critbit</p>
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+ <h1 id="label-Critbit+Homepages%3A">Critbit Homepages:</h1>
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+ <ul><li>
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+ <p><a href="http://rubygems.org/gems/critbit">rubygems.org/gems/critbit</a></p>
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+ href="https://github.com/rbotafogo/critbit/wiki">github.com/rbotafogo/critbit/wiki</a></p>
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+ <h1 id="label-Contributors%3A">Contributors:</h1>
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+ <p>Contributors are welcome.</p>
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+ <h1 id="label-Critbit+History%3A">Critbit History:</h1>
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+ <ul><li>
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+ <p>05/04/2013: Version 0.5.0 – Initial release.</p>
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+ <h1 id="label-Announcement">Announcement</h1>
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+
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+ <p>Critbit version 0.5 has been realeased. A crit bit tree, also known as a
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+ Binary Patricia Trie is a trie (<a
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+ href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trie">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trie</a>),
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+ also called digital tree and sometimes radix tree or prefix tree (as they
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+ can be searched by prefixes), is an ordered tree data structure that is
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+ used to store a dynamic set or associative array where the keys are usually
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+ strings. Unlike a binary search tree, no node in the tree stores the key
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+ associated with that node; instead, its position in the tree defines the
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+ key with which it is associated. All the descendants of a node have a
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+ common prefix of the string associated with that node, and the root is
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+ associated with the empty string. Values are normally not associated with
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+ every node, only with leaves and some inner nodes that correspond to keys
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+ of interest. For the space-optimized presentation of prefix tree, see
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+ compact prefix tree.</p>
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+
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+ <p>[The following is from: <a
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+ href="http://cr.yp.to/critbit.html">cr.yp.to/critbit.html</a>]</p>
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+
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+ <p>A crit-bit tree supports the following operations (and more!) at high
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+ speed:</p>
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+ <ul><li>
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+ <p>See whether a string x is in the tree.</p>
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+ </li><li>
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+ <p>Add x to the tree.</p>
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+ </li><li>
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+ <p>Remove x from the tree.</p>
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+ </li><li>
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+ <p>Find the lexicographically smallest string in the tree larger than x, if
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+ there is one.</p>
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+ </li><li>
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+ <p>Find all suffixes of x in the tree, i.e., all strings in the tree that have
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+ x as a prefix. Of course, this can take a long time if there are many such
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+ strings, but each string is found quickly.</p>
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+ </li></ul>
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+
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+ <p>A crit-bit tree can be used as a high-speed associative array. For example,
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+ an array mapping 54 to 1, 19 to 2, 99 to 3, 85 to 4, and 88 to 5 can be
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+ stored as a crit-bit tree containing 54=1, 19=2, 99=3, 85=4, and 88=5. The
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+ smallest string in the crit-bit tree larger than 85= is 85=4.</p>
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+
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+ <p>The standard strategy for many years has been to store searchable data sets
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+ as hash tables, in applications that need exact searches but not
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+ lexicographic searches; or as heaps, in applications that need to search
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+ for the minimum; or as AVL trees, red-black trees, etc. in applications
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+ that do not fit the restrictions of hash tables and heaps.</p>
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+
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+ <p>In Python, for example, the built-in “dict” data type is a hash table. Hash
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+ tables don&#39;t provide fast access to the smallest entry, so there&#39;s
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+ also a standard “heapq” library providing heaps. Heaps don&#39;t provide
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+ fast lookups of other entries, so there are various add-on libraries
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+ providing AVL trees and so on. A programmer who&#39;s happy creating a
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+ “dict” will simply do so, but then another programmer who wants fancier
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+ operations on the resulting database has to do an expensive conversion of
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+ the “dict” to a fancier data structure.</p>
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+
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+ <p>I (D. J. Bernstein) have become convinced that this strategy should change.
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+ The revised strategy is much simpler: there should be one fundamental
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+ set-storage type, namely a crit-bit tree. Here&#39;s how a crit-bit tree
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+ stacks up against the competition:</p>
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+ <p>A hash table supports insertion, deletion, and exact searches. A crit-bit
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+ tree supports insertion, deletion, exact searches, and ordered operations
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+ such as finding the minimum. Another advantage is that a crit-bit tree
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+ guarantees good performance: it doesn&#39;t have any tricky slowdowns for
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+ unusual (or malicious) data.</p>
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+ <p>A heap supports insertion, deletion, and finding the minimum. A crit-bit
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+ tree supports insertion, deletion, finding the minimum, and exact searches,
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+ and general suffix searches.</p>
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+ <p>General-purpose comparison-based structures such as AVL trees and B-trees
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+ support exactly the same operations as a crit-bit tree. However, crit-bit
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+ trees are faster and simpler, especially for variable-length strings.
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+ B-trees advertise a memory layout that&#39;s friendly to your disk, but
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+ with less effort one can use a similar “clustering” organization for nodes
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+ in a crit-bit tree.</p>
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+ <p>If you&#39;re designing a programming language, imagine how much happier
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+ your programmers will be if your basic built-in data type allows not just
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+ looking up x, but also enumerating the strings after x in sorted order. You
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+ can&#39;t do this with hash tables. You could do it with an AVL tree, but
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+ your operations will be simpler and faster if you use a crit-bit tree.</p>
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+ <h1 id="label-Critbit+Interface">Critbit Interface</h1>
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+
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+ <p>This version of Critbit implements a very similar interface as the Hash
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+ interface with minor modifications when it makes sense to do so. Besides
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+ implementing the Hash interface it also provides features for searching for
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+ keys that have a common prefix that are not possible with hashes.</p>
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+ <p>Here is an example of using Critbit:</p>
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+
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+ <pre class="code ruby"><code class="ruby"> <span class='id identifier rubyid_crit'>crit</span> <span class='op'>=</span> <span class='const'>Critbit</span><span class='period'>.</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_new'>new</span>
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+
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+ <span class='comment'># crit is space efficient and stores prefixes only once and can be used to
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+ </span> <span class='comment'># find only strings that match a certain prefix
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+ </span> <span class='id identifier rubyid_items'>items</span> <span class='op'>=</span> <span class='lbracket'>[</span><span class='tstring'><span class='tstring_beg'>&quot;</span><span class='tstring_content'>u</span><span class='tstring_end'>&quot;</span></span><span class='comma'>,</span> <span class='tstring'><span class='tstring_beg'>&quot;</span><span class='tstring_content'>un</span><span class='tstring_end'>&quot;</span></span><span class='comma'>,</span> <span class='tstring'><span class='tstring_beg'>&quot;</span><span class='tstring_content'>unh</span><span class='tstring_end'>&quot;</span></span><span class='comma'>,</span> <span class='tstring'><span class='tstring_beg'>&quot;</span><span class='tstring_content'>uni</span><span class='tstring_end'>&quot;</span></span><span class='comma'>,</span> <span class='tstring'><span class='tstring_beg'>&quot;</span><span class='tstring_content'>unj</span><span class='tstring_end'>&quot;</span></span><span class='comma'>,</span> <span class='tstring'><span class='tstring_beg'>&quot;</span><span class='tstring_content'>unim</span><span class='tstring_end'>&quot;</span></span><span class='comma'>,</span> <span class='tstring'><span class='tstring_beg'>&quot;</span><span class='tstring_content'>unin</span><span class='tstring_end'>&quot;</span></span><span class='comma'>,</span> <span class='tstring'><span class='tstring_beg'>&quot;</span><span class='tstring_content'>unio</span><span class='tstring_end'>&quot;</span></span><span class='comma'>,</span>
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+ <span class='tstring'><span class='tstring_beg'>&quot;</span><span class='tstring_content'>uninc</span><span class='tstring_end'>&quot;</span></span><span class='comma'>,</span> <span class='tstring'><span class='tstring_beg'>&quot;</span><span class='tstring_content'>unind</span><span class='tstring_end'>&quot;</span></span><span class='comma'>,</span> <span class='tstring'><span class='tstring_beg'>&quot;</span><span class='tstring_content'>unine</span><span class='tstring_end'>&quot;</span></span><span class='comma'>,</span> <span class='tstring'><span class='tstring_beg'>&quot;</span><span class='tstring_content'>unindd</span><span class='tstring_end'>&quot;</span></span><span class='comma'>,</span> <span class='tstring'><span class='tstring_beg'>&quot;</span><span class='tstring_content'>uninde</span><span class='tstring_end'>&quot;</span></span><span class='comma'>,</span> <span class='tstring'><span class='tstring_beg'>&quot;</span><span class='tstring_content'>unindf</span><span class='tstring_end'>&quot;</span></span><span class='comma'>,</span>
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+ <span class='tstring'><span class='tstring_beg'>&quot;</span><span class='tstring_content'>unindew</span><span class='tstring_end'>&quot;</span></span><span class='comma'>,</span> <span class='tstring'><span class='tstring_beg'>&quot;</span><span class='tstring_content'>unindex</span><span class='tstring_end'>&quot;</span></span><span class='comma'>,</span> <span class='tstring'><span class='tstring_beg'>&quot;</span><span class='tstring_content'>unindey</span><span class='tstring_end'>&quot;</span></span><span class='comma'>,</span> <span class='tstring'><span class='tstring_beg'>&quot;</span><span class='tstring_content'>a</span><span class='tstring_end'>&quot;</span></span><span class='comma'>,</span> <span class='tstring'><span class='tstring_beg'>&quot;</span><span class='tstring_content'>z</span><span class='tstring_end'>&quot;</span></span><span class='rbracket'>]</span>
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+ <span class='comment'># add items to the container
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+ </span> <span class='id identifier rubyid_items'>items</span><span class='period'>.</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_each'>each</span> <span class='kw'>do</span> <span class='op'>|</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_item'>item</span><span class='op'>|</span>
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+ <span class='id identifier rubyid_crit'>crit</span><span class='lbracket'>[</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_item'>item</span><span class='rbracket'>]</span> <span class='op'>=</span> <span class='id identifier rubyid_item'>item</span>
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+ <span class='kw'>end</span>
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+ <span class='comment'># Does each for all elements in the critbit
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+ </span> <span class='id identifier rubyid_print'>print</span> <span class='tstring'><span class='tstring_beg'>&quot;</span><span class='tstring_content'>[</span><span class='tstring_end'>&quot;</span></span>
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+ <span class='id identifier rubyid_crit'>crit</span><span class='period'>.</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_each'>each</span> <span class='kw'>do</span> <span class='op'>|</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_key'>key</span><span class='comma'>,</span> <span class='id identifier rubyid_value'>value</span><span class='op'>|</span>
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+ <span class='id identifier rubyid_print'>print</span> <span class='tstring'><span class='tstring_beg'>&quot;</span><span class='tstring_content'>[</span><span class='embexpr_beg'>#{</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_key'>key</span><span class='embexpr_end'>}</span><span class='tstring_content'>, </span><span class='embexpr_beg'>#{</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_value'>value</span><span class='embexpr_end'>}</span><span class='tstring_content'>] </span><span class='tstring_end'>&quot;</span></span>
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+ <span class='kw'>end</span>
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+ <span class='id identifier rubyid_print'>print</span> <span class='tstring'><span class='tstring_beg'>&quot;</span><span class='tstring_content'>]</span><span class='tstring_end'>&quot;</span></span>
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+ </code></pre>
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+ <p>Prints:</p>
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+
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+ <pre class="code ruby"><code class="ruby"> [[a, a] [u, u] [un, un] [unh, unh] [uni, uni] [unim, unim] [unin, unin] [uninc, uninc]
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+ [unind, unind] [unindd, unindd] [uninde, uninde] [unindew, unindew] [unindex, unindex]
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+ [unindey, unindey] [unindf, unindf] [unine, unine] [unio, unio] [unj, unj] [z, z] ].</code></pre>
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+ <p>Observe that all elements are printed in sorted order, this is because
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+ critbit is naturally sorted. This is one of the benefits of critbit over
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+ hashes.</p>
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+
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+ <p>Critbits also allow for doing prefix traversal. In the next code example
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+ the critbit is traversed by only selecting strings that have “unin” as
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+ prefix, by passing the prefix as argument to &#39;each&#39;:</p>
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+
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+ <pre class="code ruby"><code class="ruby"> # Does each for all elements in the critbit
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+ print &quot;[&quot;
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+ crit.each(&quot;unin&quot;) do |key, value|
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+ print &quot;[#{key}, #{value}] &quot;
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+ print &quot;]&quot;
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+ [[unin, unin] [uninc, uninc] [unind, unind] [unindd, unindd] [uninde, uninde]
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+ [unindew, unindew] [unindex, unindex] [unindey, unindey] [unindf, unindf]
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+ [unine, unine] ].
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+ </code></pre>
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+ <p>A critbit prefix can also be set by using method &#39;prefix=&#39;:</p>
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+ <pre class="code ruby"><code class="ruby"> <span class='id identifier rubyid_crit'>crit</span><span class='period'>.</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_prefix'>prefix</span> <span class='op'>=</span> <span class='tstring'><span class='tstring_beg'>&quot;</span><span class='tstring_content'>unin</span><span class='tstring_end'>&quot;</span></span>
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+ <span class='comment'># Does each for all elements in the critbit
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+ </span> <span class='id identifier rubyid_print'>print</span> <span class='tstring'><span class='tstring_beg'>&quot;</span><span class='tstring_content'>[</span><span class='tstring_end'>&quot;</span></span>
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+ <span class='id identifier rubyid_crit'>crit</span><span class='period'>.</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_each'>each</span> <span class='kw'>do</span> <span class='op'>|</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_key'>key</span><span class='comma'>,</span> <span class='id identifier rubyid_value'>value</span><span class='op'>|</span>
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+ <span class='id identifier rubyid_print'>print</span> <span class='tstring'><span class='tstring_beg'>&quot;</span><span class='tstring_content'>[</span><span class='embexpr_beg'>#{</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_key'>key</span><span class='embexpr_end'>}</span><span class='tstring_content'>, </span><span class='embexpr_beg'>#{</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_value'>value</span><span class='embexpr_end'>}</span><span class='tstring_content'>] </span><span class='tstring_end'>&quot;</span></span>
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+ <span class='kw'>end</span>
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+ <span class='id identifier rubyid_print'>print</span> <span class='tstring'><span class='tstring_beg'>&quot;</span><span class='tstring_content'>]</span><span class='tstring_end'>&quot;</span></span>
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+ <h1 id="label-Critbit+installation+and+download%3A">Critbit installation and download:</h1>
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+ <p>Install Jruby</p>
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+ <p>jruby –S gem install critbit</p>
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+ <p><a href="http://rubygems.org/gems/critbit">rubygems.org/gems/critbit</a></p>
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+ <h1 id="label-Contributors%3A">Contributors:</h1>
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+ <p>Contributors are welcome.</p>
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+ <h1 id="label-Critbit+History%3A">Critbit History:</h1>
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+ <ul><li>
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+ <p>05/04/2013: Version 0.5.0 – Initial release.</p>
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