Generic Dictionary consisting of string & linkedlist string

jordan wills

Hey,

So, I have a generic dictionary (key = name, value = linkedlist).

public Dictionary> myDictionary = new Dictionary>();

I know how to insert values into the linkedlist (the value part of the dictionary), however, I do not know how to retrieve/display them. I have managed to retrieve the first, and last entries within the linkedlist through this:

entry.Value.First.Value entry.Value.Last.Value

^the above code is placed within a foreach loop of the dictionary.

I want to input an unspecific amount of entries into the linkedlist, and be able to put them all into 1 string, or display them.

How can I do this? Is it possible? I have been stuck for far too long now, please help :)

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Vulpes12y ago
I've adjusted Jignesh's code to use a LinkedList rather than a List.

I've also shown how you can combine the elements of a LinkedList into a string (.NET 4.0 or later assumed):

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;

class Test
{
static void Main()
{
var dic = new Dictionary>();
string[] sa = { "a", "b", "c", "d" };
string[] sa1 = { "a1", "b1", "c1", "d1" };
dic.Add("test", new LinkedList(sa));
dic.Add("test1", new LinkedList(sa1));

var rd = dic["test"];
foreach (var r in rd)
{
Console.Write("{0} ", r);
}

Console.WriteLine();
// now display elements of second linked list as a string
var rd1 = dic["test1"];
var str = String.Join(" ", rd1);
Console.WriteLine(str);
Console.ReadKey();
}
}

The output is:

a b c d
a1 b1 c1 d1
Jignesh Trivedi12y ago
Hi,
Try followinf code it might help you.
Dictionary> dic = new Dictionary>();
dic.Add("test", new List { "a", "b", "c", "d" });
dic.Add("test1", new List { "a1", "b1", "c1", "d1" });
var rd = dic["test"];
foreach (var r in rd)
{
Console.WriteLine(r);
}