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invert

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invert() public

Returns a Hash (not a DBM database) created by using each value in the database as a key, with the corresponding key as its value.

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static VALUE
fdbm_invert(VALUE obj)
{
    datum key, val;
    struct dbmdata *dbmp;
    DBM *dbm;
    VALUE keystr, valstr;
    VALUE hash = rb_hash_new();

    GetDBM2(obj, dbmp, dbm);
    for (key = dbm_firstkey(dbm); key.dptr; key = dbm_nextkey(dbm)) {
        val = dbm_fetch(dbm, key);
        keystr = rb_tainted_str_new(key.dptr, key.dsize);
        valstr = rb_tainted_str_new(val.dptr, val.dsize);
        rb_hash_aset(hash, valstr, keystr);
    }
    return hash;
}

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