On Mar 25, 2007, at 9:49 AM, Charles Yeomans wrote:
> What is it that you find confusing about the Dictionary interface?
The first awkwardness is the apparent necessity to test for the
existence of a key before getting the key-value combination
Next, the word "key" is not used when getting a value associated with
a key.
So
if myDictionary.HasKey("name") then
myvariable=mydictionary.value("name")
end if
is, I think, the correct code to get the value associated with the
key "name".
If I were to try say what the second line is doing it is something like:
"get the value associated with the key "name" from myDictionary and
assign it to "myvariable".
If the second line were:
myvariable=mydictionary.KEY("name")
it would make more sense to me.
There is also a wonderful function to get each key and value in a
dictionary. (myVariant=myDictionary.values() and
myVariant=myDictionary.keys()) I've used it several times and its
great, but I have to look it each time. its not as simple as
for i=0 ubound(myarray)
next
or
for each element in myarray.
next
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