String List in C

Posted on April 22, 2020

Introduction Currently we have a generic list container which uses void pointers to allow anything to be stored. Previously, we created a type safe string hashtable wrapping the generic hashtable. We want to do the same thing for our list and so now we’re going to... Continue reading

Generic List in C

Posted on April 9, 2020

Introduction Lists (dynamic arrays) are yet another super useful data structure that C just doesn’t have. C arrays are great for when you can get away with a fixed size but not so fun if you need to dynamically expand because you don’t know quite how many elements you’ll... Continue reading

String Hashtable in C

Posted on March 28, 2020

Introduction We have this amazing generic hashtable and we can put pretty much anything we want into it, but it has a few flaws. It uses void pointers and has a pretty verbose setup with that callback struct. If you’re using the same types over and... Continue reading

Generic Hashtable in C

Posted on March 6, 2020

Introduction So, C doesn’t have a native hashtable object but that’s not a problem because we can use one one someone else wrote. Lack of a robust standard library is probably the biggest impoundments of working with C. It’s a real shame C doesn’t natively support hashtables because they... Continue reading

Efficient C String Builder

Posted on February 26, 2017

One task that always annoys me when I work with C is building strings. snprintf is all well and good if I know exactly the format I want. It falls down with anything that needs to be build iteratively and dynamically. Other languages that have built in strings... Continue reading

String List in C

Generic List in C

String Hashtable in C

Generic Hashtable in C

Efficient C String Builder

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