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[Ian Haggard]

Here's the problem:

> hash_map<const char*, int> hm;

This needs to be something like:

hash_map< const char*, int,hash<const char*>,equal_to<string> > hm;

The problem you're encountering is that while I the hash function is presumably
finding the right string in the hash map, the equality comparison you're using
-- equals_to<const char*> -- is only comparing the ADDRESS of the
string-pointers, not the strings they point to.
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