Re: Initialed value lost !

From:
James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Sat, 9 Aug 2008 03:51:44 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<8f9c292c-d72d-4bcb-8ab9-7f12ddc1e754@m44g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>
On Aug 9, 6:54 am, sam.bark...@gmail.com wrote:

Hi there,
 I am trying to develop a compressed suffix trie.
But first I want to get the trie working.
The structure of the trie is like

class trie {
 private:
  bool last_node;
  map<char, trie> children;


This is undefined behavior. You can't instantiate a standard
container on an incomplete type. It might work in some
implementations, but it might not.

//methods
....
....
....}

The problem is that after inserting one word,the values held by the
private members of the nodes(other than the root is lost).
insert is a recursive function
new node is added like this
                        trie new_child;
                        this->children[alphabet]=new_child;
                        new_child.insert(word.substr(1));//insert is call=

ed again.

Is the above supposed to be C++. Parts of it look like it,
others don't.

I'd implement a trie more or less:

    class Trie
    {
    public:
        void insert(
                                std::string::const_iterator begin,
                                std::string::const_iterator end ) ;
    private:
        boost::array< boost::scoped_ptr< Trie >, UCHAR_MAX + 1 >
                            myChildren ;
    } ;

    void
    Trie::insert(
        std::string::const_iterator begin,
        std::string::const_iterator end )
    {
        if ( begin != end ) {
            unsigned char index = *begin ;
            if ( myChildren[ index ].get() == NULL ) {
                myChildren[ index ].reset( new Trie ) ;
            }
            myChildren[ index ]->insert( begin + 1, end ) ;
        }
    }

Note that you need the dynamic allocation in order for the class
to contain instances of itself.

I had stepped through to debug this is what happened.I had a
pasteing the value of this ppointer and the data member
last_node


    [...]

could anyone tell what I am doing wrong?


You haven't really posted enough of your own code for us to say.
But something similar to the above should work. (With regards
to the undefined behavior, I suspect that in general, if the
code compiles, it will work. But the standard still says it is
undefined, and there are implementations where it won't
compile.)

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