HashMap or Property

[farseer]

Hi,
is there anything in the C# language that will allow you to retrieve a
value by a key, sort of like those in java? for instance

Object o = map.get("somekey");

i know there as to be something like this, but can't find it in
System.Utils. I have seen HashTable, but you must enumerate thru all
items and do a comparison until you find the key you are looking for
apparently.

thanks

[Ashish Kaila]

No you donot need to iterate over all the items in a hashtable, which is in
System.Collections namespace. You may use:
System.Collections.Hashtable hash = new System.Collections.Hashtable();
:
:
Object o = hash["somekey"];
HTH
Ashish

"farseer" <fa*****@optonline.net> wrote in message
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Hi,
is there anything in the C# language that will allow you to retrieve a
value by a key, sort of like those in java? for instance

Object o = map.get("somekey");

i know there as to be something like this, but can't find it in
System.Utils. I have seen HashTable, but you must enumerate thru all
items and do a comparison until you find the key you are looking for
apparently.

thanks

[farseer]

Ahh yes. thank you...i see it supports the IDictionary interface...

[Michael S]

"farseer" <fa*****@optonline.net> wrote in message
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Ahh yes. thank you...i see it supports the IDictionary interface...

In .NET 2.0 you will probably want to use the generic type Dictionary
instead of HashTable.

- Michael S