Store data in a Hashtable

Hi

I get data from an cvs file and wuld like to store the data in a Hashtable, how does that work

I mange to store ("key","data") ~ ("001","John Doe")

but not ("001","John Doe","66539","KS","USA")

I will be greatfull for any useful hint about the problem.

//Matt

Sweden

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Store data in a Hashtable

Tomas Galvez

A hashtable stores key-value pairs. This means 1 key and 1 value. The value is of type Object, so you can store anything in there. In your case, you would have to create a class that contains the data for John Doe and add an instance of the class to the hash table

public class Person

{

private string _name;

private string _zip;

private string _state;

private string _country;

public person()

{

}

public string Name {

get {return _name;}

set {_name = value;}

}

public string Zip {

get {return _zip;}

set {_zip = value;}

}

public string State {

get {return _state;}

set {_state = value;}

}

public string Country{

get {return _country;}

set {_country = value;}

}

}

To store the data in the Hashtable, use the following:

HashTable table = new HashTable;

Person p = new Person();

p.Name = "John Doe";

p.Zip = "66539";

p.State = "KS";

p.Country = "UA"

able.Add("001", p);

To retrieve the data from the HashTable, you'll have to cast the value to a Person object (as the value in the Hashtable is stored as type 'Object')

Person p = (Person)HashTable["001"];
Store data in a Hashtable

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