Check valid particular Dictionary

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Hi all,
I have to write a method that test a dictionary of this type:

Dictionary<string, Dictionary<string, string[]>>

to check if every string is not null or empty.

How can I write this?

Thanks in advance.
--
Luigi

Oct 2 '08 #1

Marc Gravell

Do you mean every string in every string[]? If so, do you have .NET 3.5
available to you? You could use:

IEnumerable<stringallValues = outer.Values
.SelectMany(inner =inner.Values)
.SelectMany(array =array);

This yields all the string values from all the string[] arrays in turn.
If you just want to know if any are incorrect:

bool anyInvalid = outer.Values
.SelectMany(inner =inner.Values)
.SelectMany(array =array)
.Any(string.IsNullOrEmpty);

Marc
[C# MVP]

Oct 2 '08 #2

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"Marc Gravell" wrote:

Do you mean every string in every string[]? If so, do you have .NET 3.5
available to you? You could use:

IEnumerable<stringallValues = outer.Values
.SelectMany(inner =inner.Values)
.SelectMany(array =array);

This yields all the string values from all the string[] arrays in turn.
If you just want to know if any are incorrect:

bool anyInvalid = outer.Values
.SelectMany(inner =inner.Values)
.SelectMany(array =array)
.Any(string.IsNullOrEmpty);

Hi Mark,
sorry, but I have C# 2.0 (forget to write it first).

Luigi

Oct 2 '08 #3

Marc Gravell

sorry, but I have C# 2.0 (forget to write it first).

Then you'll just have to do a few foreach loops, I'm afraid...

Marc

Oct 2 '08 #4

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"Marc Gravell" wrote:

sorry, but I have C# 2.0 (forget to write it first).

Then you'll just have to do a few foreach loops, I'm afraid...

Marc

Have you something similar Marc?
The difficult for me is to have a Dictionary embedded in another dictionary.

L

Oct 2 '08 #5

Marc Gravell

Something like below?

Dictionary<string, Dictionary<string, string[]>outer =
new Dictionary<string, Dictionary<string, string[]>>();
foreach (KeyValuePair<string, Dictionary<string, string[]>>
outerPair in outer)
{
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(outerPair.Key))
{
Console.WriteLine("outer key is null");
}
foreach (KeyValuePair<string, string[]innerPair in
outerPair.Value)
{
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(innerPair.Key))
{
Console.WriteLine("inner key is null; outer key: "
+ outerPair.Key);
}
foreach (string s in innerPair.Value)
{
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(s))
{
Console.WriteLine("value is null; outer key: "
+ outerPair.Key
+ "; inner key: " + innerPair.Key);
}
}
}
}

Oct 2 '08 #6

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"Marc Gravell" wrote:

Something like below?

Dictionary<string, Dictionary<string, string[]>outer =
new Dictionary<string, Dictionary<string, string[]>>();
foreach (KeyValuePair<string, Dictionary<string, string[]>>
outerPair in outer)
{
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(outerPair.Key))
{
Console.WriteLine("outer key is null");
}
foreach (KeyValuePair<string, string[]innerPair in
outerPair.Value)
{
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(innerPair.Key))
{
Console.WriteLine("inner key is null; outer key: "
+ outerPair.Key);
}
foreach (string s in innerPair.Value)
{
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(s))
{
Console.WriteLine("value is null; outer key: "
+ outerPair.Key
+ "; inner key: " + innerPair.Key);
}
}
}
}

Perfect!
Thank you so much Marc.

Luigi

Oct 2 '08 #7