Hashtable: setting a value?

[BCM]

How do you reset a value for an existing key in a hashtable? I need to
create a collection and compare the values with another collection: when
certain parameters are met then I need to reset the value of certain
elelments in the first collection.

I would have thought that the Hashtable.Item property would do the
trick, as MSDN defines it as "Gets or sets the value associated with the
specified key". But the actual documentation is so obtuse it's just silly:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...sitemtopic.asp

Thanks in advance.

[Adam Clauss]

What do you mean by "reset"?

To set a value its just something like:

Hashtable hash = new Hashtable();
....
hash[key] = newValue;

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Adam Clauss
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"BCM" <BC*@email.none > wrote in message news:41******** @news.unc.edu.. .

How do you reset a value for an existing key in a hashtable? I need to
create a collection and compare the values with another collection: when
certain parameters are met then I need to reset the value of certain
elelments in the first collection.

I would have thought that the Hashtable.Item property would do the
trick, as MSDN defines it as "Gets or sets the value associated with the
specified key". But the actual documentation is so obtuse it's just silly:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...sitemtopic.asp

Thanks in advance.

[Stoitcho Goutsev \(100\) [C# MVP]]

Hi BCM,

What part of the docs you didn't get?
What do you mean by reseting the value?
If it is just to set it to null

hasttable[key] = null will do the trick for you.

If you want to remove the key/vlue pair for the item use

hasttable.Remov e(key) = null will do the trick for you.

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HTH
Stoitcho Goutsev (100) [C# MVP]
"BCM" <BC*@email.none > wrote in message news:41******** @news.unc.edu.. .

How do you reset a value for an existing key in a hashtable? I need to
create a collection and compare the values with another collection: when
certain parameters are met then I need to reset the value of certain
elelments in the first collection.

I would have thought that the Hashtable.Item property would do the
trick, as MSDN defines it as "Gets or sets the value associated with the
specified key". But the actual documentation is so obtuse it's just silly:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...sitemtopic.asp
Thanks in advance.