Hashtable enumeration

[JezB]

How can I loop thru a hashtable changing the Value of each entry ? Whatever
I try I always seem to get the error about modifying the collection within
the loop.

[Ben S. Stahlhood II]

Check out the following article, it might help shed some light on things...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/de...res_guide2.asp

Take care,
Ben S. Stahlhood II
"JezB" <je*************@blueyonder.co.yk> wrote in message
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How can I loop thru a hashtable changing the Value of each entry ? Whatever I try I always seem to get the error about modifying the collection within
the loop.

foreach (DictionaryEntry de in blahblah)
{
}
"JezB" <je*************@blueyonder.co.yk> wrote in message
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How can I loop thru a hashtable changing the Value of each entry ? Whatever I try I always seem to get the error about modifying the collection within
the loop.

[Sanjay Vyas]

From the docs:
The foreach statement is a wrapper around the enumerator, which only allows
reading from, not writing to, the collection.

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foreach (DictionaryEntry de in blahblah)
{
}
"JezB" <je*************@blueyonder.co.yk> wrote in message
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How can I loop thru a hashtable changing the Value of each entry ?

Whatever

I try I always seem to get the error about modifying the collection within the loop.

[JezB]

Yes I know but you try within that loop modifying de.Value - it wont let you
change the collection.

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foreach (DictionaryEntry de in blahblah)
{
}
"JezB" <je*************@blueyonder.co.yk> wrote in message
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How can I loop thru a hashtable changing the Value of each entry ?

Whatever

I try I always seem to get the error about modifying the collection within the loop.

[JezB]

Well it seems crazy but to do this I have actually implemented two loops -
one to store all the keys of the hashtable in an arraylist, then another to
loop thru that arraylist and set each hashtable entry value by its key.

I'm thinking there must be a better way - but maybe not.

"JezB" <je*************@blueyonder.co.yk> wrote in message
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How can I loop thru a hashtable changing the Value of each entry ? Whatever I try I always seem to get the error about modifying the collection within
the loop.

Cant you just get the current item, remove it and replace it if it wont let
u update it?
"JezB" <je*************@blueyonder.co.yk> wrote in message
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Well it seems crazy but to do this I have actually implemented two loops -
one to store all the keys of the hashtable in an arraylist, then another to loop thru that arraylist and set each hashtable entry value by its key.

I'm thinking there must be a better way - but maybe not.

"JezB" <je*************@blueyonder.co.yk> wrote in message
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How can I loop thru a hashtable changing the Value of each entry ?

Whatever

I try I always seem to get the error about modifying the collection within the loop.

[mikeb]

JezB wrote:

How can I loop thru a hashtable changing the Value of each entry ? Whatever
I try I always seem to get the error about modifying the collection within
the loop.

This might not be the best solution, but it works:

// Create and initializes a new Hashtable.
Hashtable myHT = new Hashtable();
myHT.Add( "one", "The" );
myHT.Add( "two", "quick" );
myHT.Add( "three", "brown" );
myHT.Add( "four", "fox" );

// get the keys
ICollection keys = myHT.Keys;

// copy the key collection so we can iterate over it without
// the requirement that the hashtable not change.
object [] keyArray = new object [keys.Count];
keys.CopyTo( keyArray, 0);

// now change all the hashtab;e values
foreach (object k in keyArray) {
string newval = (string) myHT[k] + " changed";
myHT.Remove( k);
myHT.Add( k, newval);
}

Eric Gunnerson's article here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en...rp09182003.asp

has some examples that provide a more object-oriented way of doing this
(see the IterIsolate class).

--
mikeb

[Ben S. Stahlhood II]

Jez,

Just do the following:

ArrayList arrayList = new ArrayList(hashtable.Keys);
IEnumerator listEnumerator = arrayList.GetEnumerator();
while (listEnumerator.MoveNext()) {
hashtable[listEnumerator.Current] = "value";
} // while

HTH

Take care,
Ben S. Stahlhood II

"JezB" <je*************@blueyonder.co.yk> wrote in message
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Well it seems crazy but to do this I have actually implemented two loops -
one to store all the keys of the hashtable in an arraylist, then another to loop thru that arraylist and set each hashtable entry value by its key.

I'm thinking there must be a better way - but maybe not.

"JezB" <je*************@blueyonder.co.yk> wrote in message
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How can I loop thru a hashtable changing the Value of each entry ?

Whatever

I try I always seem to get the error about modifying the collection within the loop.

[J.Marsch]

Maybe you could loop through the keys collection instead of the main
collection:

foreach(object key in TheHashTable.Keys)
TheHashTable[key] = newValue;

"JezB" <je*************@blueyonder.co.yk> wrote in message
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How can I loop thru a hashtable changing the Value of each entry ? Whatever I try I always seem to get the error about modifying the collection within
the loop.

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

<<.>> wrote:

Cant you just get the current item, remove it and replace it if it wont let
u update it?

Removing it counts as changing the collection.

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[JezB]

Tried that but no ... you have to copy the keys to an arraylist first - this
seems to be the best solution.

"J.Marsch" <je****@ctcdeveloper.com> wrote in message
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Maybe you could loop through the keys collection instead of the main
collection:

foreach(object key in TheHashTable.Keys)
TheHashTable[key] = newValue;

"JezB" <je*************@blueyonder.co.yk> wrote in message
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How can I loop thru a hashtable changing the Value of each entry ?

Whatever

I try I always seem to get the error about modifying the collection within the loop.

[Ben S. Stahlhood II]

Jez,

I posted the solution a few entries back... You do not have to do two loops
like you are doing... Please check the post and let me know if this is what
you were looking for

Take care,
Ben S. Stahlhood II
"JezB" <je*************@blueyonder.co.yk> wrote in message
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Tried that but no ... you have to copy the keys to an arraylist first - this seems to be the best solution.

"J.Marsch" <je****@ctcdeveloper.com> wrote in message
news:O8**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...

Maybe you could loop through the keys collection instead of the main
collection:

foreach(object key in TheHashTable.Keys)
TheHashTable[key] = newValue;

"JezB" <je*************@blueyonder.co.yk> wrote in message
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How can I loop thru a hashtable changing the Value of each entry ?

Whatever

I try I always seem to get the error about modifying the collection within the loop.

OMG REALLY! You are a genius!
"Jon Skeet [C# MVP]" <sk***@pobox.com> wrote in message
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<<.>> wrote:

Cant you just get the current item, remove it and replace it if it wont let u update it?

Removing it counts as changing the collection.

--
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[JezB]

Yes it is - I like your approach the best - thanks.

"Ben S. Stahlhood II" <ben[.dot.]stahlhood[.at.]intellified[.dot.]com> wrote
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Jez,

I posted the solution a few entries back... You do not have to do two loops like you are doing... Please check the post and let me know if this is what you were looking for

Take care,
Ben S. Stahlhood II
"JezB" <je*************@blueyonder.co.yk> wrote in message
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Tried that but no ... you have to copy the keys to an arraylist first -

this

seems to be the best solution.

"J.Marsch" <je****@ctcdeveloper.com> wrote in message
news:O8**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...

Maybe you could loop through the keys collection instead of the main
collection:

foreach(object key in TheHashTable.Keys)
TheHashTable[key] = newValue;

"JezB" <je*************@blueyonder.co.yk> wrote in message
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> How can I loop thru a hashtable changing the Value of each entry ?
Whatever
> I try I always seem to get the error about modifying the collection

within

> the loop.
>
>

[100]

Hi JezB,
You cannot do that with foreach loop or at least not with the enumerator
object provided by Hashtable class.
You can find a way how to do this in the following article. It has a code
for enumerator class that can be used to iterate over and change a hashtable
collection
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...rp01212002.asp

HTH
B\rgds
100

"JezB" <je*************@blueyonder.co.yk> wrote in message
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How can I loop thru a hashtable changing the Value of each entry ? Whatever I try I always seem to get the error about modifying the collection within
the loop.

[Ben S. Stahlhood II]

No problem, anytime =]

Take care,
Ben S. Stahlhood II
"JezB" <je*************@blueyonder.co.yk> wrote in message
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Yes it is - I like your approach the best - thanks.

"Ben S. Stahlhood II" <ben[.dot.]stahlhood[.at.]intellified[.dot.]com> wrote in message news:e3**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...

Jez,

I posted the solution a few entries back... You do not have to do two

loops

like you are doing... Please check the post and let me know if this is

what

you were looking for

Take care,
Ben S. Stahlhood II
"JezB" <je*************@blueyonder.co.yk> wrote in message
news:e0**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...

Tried that but no ... you have to copy the keys to an arraylist first -

this

seems to be the best solution.

"J.Marsch" <je****@ctcdeveloper.com> wrote in message
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> Maybe you could loop through the keys collection instead of the main
> collection:
>
> foreach(object key in TheHashTable.Keys)
> TheHashTable[key] = newValue;
>
>
>
>
>
> "JezB" <je*************@blueyonder.co.yk> wrote in message
> news:uA**************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> > How can I loop thru a hashtable changing the Value of each entry ?
> Whatever
> > I try I always seem to get the error about modifying the

collection within
> > the loop.
> >
> >
>
>

[mikeb]

mikeb wrote:

JezB wrote:

How can I loop thru a hashtable changing the Value of each entry ?
Whatever
I try I always seem to get the error about modifying the collection
within
the loop.
This might not be the best solution, but it works:

// Create and initializes a new Hashtable.
Hashtable myHT = new Hashtable();
myHT.Add( "one", "The" );
myHT.Add( "two", "quick" );
myHT.Add( "three", "brown" );
myHT.Add( "four", "fox" );

// get the keys
ICollection keys = myHT.Keys;

// copy the key collection so we can iterate over it without
// the requirement that the hashtable not change.
object [] keyArray = new object [keys.Count];
keys.CopyTo( keyArray, 0);

// now change all the hashtab;e values
foreach (object k in keyArray) {
string newval = (string) myHT[k] + " changed";
myHT.Remove( k);
myHT.Add( k, newval);
}

Eric Gunnerson's article here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en...rp09182003.asp

oops... I meant to send you here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en...rp01212002.asp


has some examples that provide a more object-oriented way of doing this
(see the IterIsolate class).

--
mikeb

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

<<.>> wrote:

OMG REALLY! You are a genius!

If it's so obvious that it wouldn't work, why did you suggest it?

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