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    Smile Please Help with Searching

    i am confused on something...
    i have made a hash file, now how do i use the key to search it?

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    What does your hash table look like? An array of linked lists? Then use the hashvalue of the object your searching for to get the proper array element, then do a linear search through that linked list.
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    it is a binary file?? does that help?

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    the binary hash file is composed of 60 byte structs. how can i search such a file with NAME as the key?

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    A hash file? That's weird, but you can try using fseek, I'm not sure, but this works for me.
    Code:
    #include <stdio.h>
    
    int main( )
    {
        FILE *fp;
        char rec[100]; // Record size is 100
        if(fp = fopen("records.txt", "rb"))
        {
            int read;
            int record = 1;
            fseek(fp, record * 100, SEEK_SET); // Go to the second record
            read = fread(rec, 1, 100, fp);
            if(read)
            {
                rec[read] = 0;
                printf("%s\n", rec);
            }
        }
        return 0;
    }

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    I am not sure if that will work? Maybe someone else can help more with fseek?? is that used for searching quickly based on the KEY?

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