Java HashMap
Java HashMap
In the ArrayList
chapter, you learned that Arrays store items as an ordered collection, and you have to access them with an index number (int
type). A HashMap
however, store items in "key/value" pairs, and you can access them by an index of another type (e.g. a String
).
One object is used as a key (index) to another object (value). It can store different types: String
keys and Integer
values, or the same type, like: String
keys and String
values:
例子
Create a HashMap
object called capitalCities that will store String
keys and String
values:
import java.util.HashMap; // import the HashMap class
HashMap<String, String> capitalCities = new HashMap<String, String>();
Add Items
The HashMap
class has many useful methods. For example, to add items to it, use the put()
method:
例子
// Import the HashMap class
import java.util.HashMap;
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) {
// Create a HashMap object called capitalCities
HashMap<String, String> capitalCities = new HashMap<String, String>();
// Add keys and values (Country, City)
capitalCities.put("England", "London");
capitalCities.put("Germany", "Berlin");
capitalCities.put("Norway", "Oslo");
capitalCities.put("USA", "Washington DC");
System.out.println(capitalCities);
}
}
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Access an Item
To access a value in the HashMap
, use the get()
method and refer to its key:
Remove an Item
To remove an item, use the remove()
method and refer to the key:
To remove all items, use the clear()
method:
HashMap Size
To find out how many items there are, use the size()
method:
Loop Through a HashMap
Loop through the items of a HashMap
with a for-each loop.
笔记: Use the keySet()
method if you only want the keys, and use the values()
method if you only want the values:
例子
// Print keys and values
for (String i : capitalCities.keySet()) {
System.out.println("key: " + i + " value: " + capitalCities.get(i));
}
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Other Types
Keys and values in a HashMap are actually objects. In the examples above, we used objects of type "String". Remember that a String in Java is an object (not a primitive type). To use other types, such as int, you must specify an equivalent wrapper class: Integer
. For other primitive types, use: Boolean
for boolean, Character
for char, Double
for double, etc:
例子
Create a HashMap
object called people that will store String
keys and Integer
values:
// Import the HashMap class
import java.util.HashMap;
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) {
// Create a HashMap object called people
HashMap<String, Integer> people = new HashMap<String, Integer>();
// Add keys and values (Name, Age)
people.put("John", 32);
people.put("Steve", 30);
people.put("Angie", 33);
for (String i : people.keySet()) {
System.out.println("key: " + i + " value: " + people.get(i));
}
}
}
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