that's what I was doing before I started down this road.  I am actually concatinating the strings
to make a larger hash of string words... (representing a hierarchical name type thing) 
SO I am actually copying strings all over the place... I am also reading a new set of data from a
file that has information that I need to cross reference...

So that's why I am trying to centralize strings.  That way I can create integer indexes into a
dictionary and save memory by not carrying around large numbers of strings that are really
duplicates.

thanks though
bob

--- Karl Zilles <zilles@1969.ws> wrote:
> Bob Bailey wrote:
>  > I am trying to only store the string once in memory.  This will allow 
> me to store the
>  > index of the string in the dictionary instead of copying the string 
> all over
>  > memory.
> 
> You can just pass a string around.. it doesn't actually make a copy of 
> the data.. what you're passing is just a pointer.
> 
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