Foam::dictionary
A list of keyword definitions, which are a keyword followed by any number of values (e.g. words and numbers). The keywords can represent patterns which are matched using Posix regular expressions. The general order for searching is as follows:
- exact match
- pattern match (in reverse order)
- optional recursion into the enclosing (parent) dictionaries
The dictionary class is the base class for IOdictionary. It also serves as a bootstrap dictionary for the objectRegistry data dictionaries since, unlike the IOdictionary class, it does not use an objectRegistry itself to work.
To add - a merge() member function with a non-const dictionary parameter? This would avoid unnecessary cloning in the add(entry*, bool) method.
dictionary.C dictionaryIO.C