[fpc-pascal] Pascals unit for associate arrays?

[Marco van de Voort]

> Is there any unit, or built in functionality, to do the equivalent of 
> perl's associate arrays or Python's dictionaries?
> 
> 
> What I am trying todo is to parse some lines and to store ocurrences of 
> certain strings.
> 
> For example
> string1
> string2
> string1
> string3
> string2
> 
> What I want to do is to create an entry string1 and count all string1 one 
> ocurrences, the same for each different string. In the end I would have
> string1 2
> string2 2
> string3 1

Have a look at Decal in contribs svn.