Re: Iterating over Maps: Am I missing something?
dsh0105@gmail.com wrote:
I've found that I often need to iterator over a Map and do something
to each element of the Map. The only way I've found to do this is to
get a get a KeySet from the map, get an Iterator from the KeySet and
use that Iterator to move over the elements of the Map. Is their a
simpler (less verbose) way of accomplishing this:
Set<String> keys=myMap.keySet();
Iterator<String>it=keys.iterator();
while (it.hasNext())
{
String key=it.next();
String value=myMap.get(key);
/*
Do something to the value...
*/
}
This just seems like a lot of work when you compare it to what you can
do with a ArrayList (assume this is a list of Strings for example
purposes)
for (String s: myList)
{
//Do something with s
}
Any advice appreciated.
What is preventing you from using the new loop syntax with the Map?
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;
public class MapTest {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Map<String,String> myMap = new HashMap<String,String>();
myMap.put("x","a");
myMap.put("y","b");
System.out.println("Values only");
for(String value: myMap.values()){
System.out.printf("Value: %s%n",value);
}
System.out.println("Keys and values");
for(Map.Entry<String,String> entry: myMap.entrySet()){
System.out.printf("Key: %s, Value: %s%n",
entry.getKey(),entry.getValue());
}
}
}
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