QuickFill.h

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 * QuickFill.h -- the quickfill tree data structure                 *
 * Copyright (C) 1997 Robin D. Clark                                *
 * Copyright (C) 1998 Linas Vepstas                                 *
 * Copyright (C) 2000 Dave Peticolas                                *
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#ifndef __QUICKFILL_H__
#define __QUICKFILL_H__

#include "config.h"

#include <glib.h>


/** STRUCTS *********************************************************/

/* The way quickfill works is this: the decscription field of a transaction
 * is used to insert a pointer to itself into the quickfill tree.  The
 * QuickFill struct is a node in the tree, and the qf array is an array
 * of pointers to children of the node.  (NULL, if no corresponding child.)
 * The index of the array is determined by the next letter in the string
 * that is the description field.  The trans field is a pointer to the last
 * inserted child that made it to this node.  At the root of the tree is
 * a QuickFill struct, with trans == NULL, and the array of pointers to
 * children.  When a transaction is inserted, the first letter of the
 * description field determines which child the transaction goes into.  
 * If the child is NULL, a new QuickFill node is created.  Otherwise,
 * the trans field of the child is changed to point to the new transaction.
 * Then, recursively, the process is repeated, with the next character in
 * the description field as the index to the array.  The recursion stops
 * when the end of the descriptions string is reached.
 */

typedef enum
{
  QUICKFILL_LIFO,
  QUICKFILL_ALPHA
} QuickFillSort;

typedef struct _QuickFill QuickFill;


/** PROTOTYPES ******************************************************/

QuickFill *  gnc_quickfill_new (void);
void         gnc_quickfill_destroy (QuickFill *qf);

const char * gnc_quickfill_string (QuickFill *qf);

QuickFill *  gnc_quickfill_get_char_match (QuickFill *qf, char c);
QuickFill *  gnc_quickfill_get_string_match (QuickFill *qf, const char *str);
QuickFill *  gnc_quickfill_get_string_len_match (QuickFill *qf,
                                                 const char *str, int len);
QuickFill *  gnc_quickfill_get_unique_len_match (QuickFill *qf, int *len);

void         gnc_quickfill_insert (QuickFill *qf, const char *text,
                                   QuickFillSort sort_code);

#endif /* __QUICKFILL_H__ */