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Lessons Learned   Books   Sites   Messages   About	Saturday, 04 September 2010 User-Posted Messages Post a New Message Browse threads by subject Search threads by topic AlgorithmsArtificial IntelligenceC++Design PatternsGeneral ProgrammingHTML/XMLJavaLisp/SchemeNew at ProgrammingToolkitObject-Oriented ProgrammingOtherProject ManagementPythonSQL and DatabaseTcl/TkText EditorsUnix Hashing Regular Expressions Posted 19:52, 28 October, 2003 by mjw I am looking to store objects in a hash table where the key may be a regular expression. To retrieve stored objects, I can test potential keys to see if they match the regular expression, but then I lose the speed inherent in the hash table. Is there any way to do a get using, e.g., ABCD which would retrieve the object stored under AB[A-Z]D? Respond