Get Dictionary key by value

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Hi all,
having a dictionary of <int, string(C# 2.0) is there a way to retrieve the
key for a specific value (of type string)?
Obviously I populate the Dictionary with not duplicated strings.

Thanks a lot.
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Luigi

[Marc Gravell]

Probably the easiest option here is to loop over the pairs;

public static int? FindKey(
this IDictionary<int, stringlookup,
string value)
{
foreach (var pair in lookup)
{
if (pair.Value == value)
return pair.Key;
}
return null;
}

Which you can then call via:

Dictionary<int, stringlookup = new Dictionary<int,
string>(); // etc
int? value = lookup.FindKey("abc");
if (value.HasValue)
{
Console.WriteLine("Found it: " + value.Value);
}

Marc

[Mark Rae [MVP]]

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having a dictionary of <int, string(C# 2.0) is there a way to retrieve
the
key for a specific value (of type string)?

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[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Luigi <ci****************@inwind.itwrote:

having a dictionary of <int, string(C# 2.0) is there a way to retrieve the
key for a specific value (of type string)?
Obviously I populate the Dictionary with not duplicated strings.

No - a dictionary is a one way mapping. If you want to be able to map
both ways, you need two dictionaries.

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[OD]

Hi all,

having a dictionary of <int, string(C# 2.0) is there a way to retrieve the
key for a specific value (of type string)?
Obviously I populate the Dictionary with not duplicated strings.

Thanks a lot.

dictionnaries are "one way". you'll have to iterate or use a second
dictionnary.

You said you're using C# 2.0, so just to show you what C#3.0 can bring,
you can simplify your code using a Linq query like this (case
insensitive search of string "two" in a dictionnary "dic"
dictionnary<int,string>) :

var key = (from k in dic where string.Compare(k.Value, "two", true) ==
0 select k.Key).FirstOrDefault();
Console.WriteLine(key);

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