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.
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;
}