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Introduction

The CIFTable package contains several files that converge together in the ISTable class, a i ndexed s tring table . The ISTable class has a number of characteristics that make it useful for a wide variety of applications:

ISTable objects are general to the datatypes supported. Other types can be stored as strings and converted at a higher level.
ISTable objects are extremely flexible. Data can be inserted and removed easily, by row, by column, or by individual cell.
ISTable objects provide persistent storage management of themselves.
ISTable objects have an efficient searching mechanism built internally. Height-balanced binary search tree is used to implement searching mechanism. Columnwise methods and some rowwise methods are not safe if ther is an index on the table.

This document describes the public and static interface to the ISTable class.

Olivera Tosic
6/12/2002


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