Hash function issue - adding functionality

Question

I tried adding functionality to the djb2 hash function, but it doesn't appear to like the changes. Specifically, I'm trying to include a loop that converts words (strings) to lower case. It throws the following two errors:

Incompatible integer to pointer conversion assigning to
char *
from
int

Cannot increment value of type
char *[45]

Note that in the original code

*str++

appeared in the

while

loop. This is my first hash table, and I'm rather shaky on pointers. Any insight on where I've gone wrong would be appreciated.

// djb2 by Dan Bernstein -- slightly modified;

unsigned int hash_function(const char* str)

{

    unsigned int hash = 5381;

    int c;

    char* string[45];



    for (int i = 0; str[i] != '\0'; i++)

    {

        string[i] = (tolower(str[i]));

    }



    while (c == *string++)

        hash = ((hash << 5) + hash) + c; /* hash * 33 + c */



    return (hash % LISTS);

}

Answer 1

This:

char* string[45];

means "array of 45 character pointers", you should drop the asterisk.

And you can't iterate over an array by incrementing the variable, the array variable cannot be changed. You can use a separate pointer:

const char *s = string;
while (c = *s++)

Note that assignment is spelled =, while == is comparison for equality which is not what you mean.

Hash function issue - adding functionality

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