Re: how to use/access ArrayList as value in Hashtable

From:
Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
Sat, 06 May 2006 16:01:11 GMT
Message-ID:
<bL37g.469$u4.0@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net>
u126561@yahoo.com.au wrote:

Hi all,
        could anyone who knows how to solve this problem please give me
some hints?

The question is:
 I have set up a Hashtable and strings as keys and empty ArrayList as
values:
   Hashtable iword = new Hashtable();
   while ((inLine = inputStream.readLine()) != null) {
                input = inLine.split(" ",-2);
                for (int i = 0 ; i < input.length; i++){
                    iword.put(input[i],new ArrayList());
                }
              }
------------------------------------------------
but, now, how can I insert more than one value for a specified
key?(i.e, insert string into the ArrayList)

Many Thanks!!!!!!


Split the task into two pieces:

1. Get the value from the Hashtable as an ArrayList reference. That is
just the same as getting e.g. a String reference from a Hashtable whose
values are String references.

2. Given an ArrayList reference, insert a String reference in the ArrayList.

Patricia

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