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Re: exporting a HashMap

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On 1/15/12 8:30 AM, Roedy Green wrote:
> What is best code to export key-value pairs from a HashMap into some
> structure in key-value order.
>
> One possible way is to extract the keys, sort them, then look up the
> values.  That strikes me as infantile.  Surely there is a better way.
>
> The best I can think of is to invent a Pair dummy class, extract the
> fields from an Entry into the two fields, and sort them in an array.
>
> Part of the problem is generics and arrays don't mix.
Uh, TreeMap is in key order. Why would you use HashMap if you want key 
order?

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exporting a HashMap Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-01-15 08:30 -0800
  Re: exporting a HashMap Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-01-15 12:01 -0500
    Re: exporting a HashMap Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-01-16 02:06 -0800
    Re: exporting a HashMap Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-01-17 09:04 -0800
      Re: exporting a HashMap Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-01-17 20:38 -0500
  Re: exporting a HashMap Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-01-15 12:25 -0500
    Re: exporting a HashMap Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-01-15 10:22 -0800
      Re: exporting a HashMap Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-01-16 10:55 -0800
        Re: exporting a HashMap Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-01-16 14:55 -0500
          Re: exporting a HashMap Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-01-16 14:19 -0800
            Re: exporting a HashMap David Lamb <dalamb@cs.queensu.ca> - 2012-01-16 18:31 -0500
            Re: exporting a HashMap Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-01-17 09:54 -0800
      Re: exporting a HashMap Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-01-16 15:07 -0500
  Re: exporting a HashMap Steven Simpson <ss@domain.invalid> - 2012-01-15 19:22 +0000
  Re: exporting a HashMap Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-01-15 21:02 -0800

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