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Monday, March 23, 2020

Using Map in Java

I need to translate some strings (state abbreviations for example) into corresponding integers.  There is a way to use Map to simplify this, but the examples that I am fjnding are less than clear.  There are three different tables that I need to do lookups in, and each table is static.  I am guessing that the method is something like:

public class Lookup {
    public int LookupTable(HashMap(String, Integer) table, String toLookup)
        return (table.get(toLookup));
    }
}

But how do I statically define the HashMap that I will pass to this method?
This ought to do it, I think.

    Map states = new HashMap();
    states.put("AL", new Integer(1));

But I still get errors  about syntax error on the semicolon on the states.put line.  Every example that I can find looks like this:

    HashMap states = new HashMap();
    states.put(1, "AL");

So why does my put call fail syntactically?  Not in a method.
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1 comment:

  1. Rick CMarch 23, 2020 at 12:29 PM

    When I try HashMap h = new HashMap(), and then your put statement, I get a type safety warning suggesting I use a parameterized HashMap instead.

    This compiles OK:


    HashMap[String, Integer] h = new HashMap[String, Integer]();
    h.put("AL", 1);

    only use angle brackets instead of square ones (I didn't want to take the time to find the right markup to display the less than and greater than symbols.)

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