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Reputation: 101

Return key for a value found in Hashtable

I know how to find a value for a corresponding key in Hashtable but how do I find what key is attached to a specific value? I wrote a function that loops through a String and finds keywords. It does that pretty quickly but I need to return key of that value(keyword) found. This is my method so far

public void findKeywords(POITextExtractor te, ArrayList<Hashtable<Integer,String>> listOfHashtables, ArrayList<Integer> KeywordsFound) {
    String document = te.getText().toString();
    String[] words = document.split("\\s+");
    int wordsNo = 0;
    int wordsMatched = 0;
    System.out.println("listOfHashtables = " + listOfHashtables);
    for(String word : words) {
        wordsNo++;
        for(Hashtable<Integer, String> hashtable : listOfHashtables) {
            //System.out.println(hashtable + " found in the document:");
            if(hashtable.containsValue(word)) {

                //<RETURN KEY OF THAT VALUE>

                wordsMatched++;
                System.out.println(word);
            }
        }
    }
    System.out.println("Number of words in document = " + wordsNo);
    System.out.println("Number of words matched: " + wordsMatched);
}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1620

Answers (1)

Jon Skeet
Jon Skeet

Reputation: 1500835

containsValue has to iterate over all the entries in the hash table anyway - so just change your code so that you do that:

for (Map.Entry<Integer, String> entry : hashtable) {
    if (word.equals(entry.getValue()) {
        // Use entry.getKey() here
    }
}

It's not clear to me from the description of the question what your hash tables are intending to represent - but it's at least unusual to have a map from integer to string. Are you sure you don't want it the other way round?

Upvotes: 2

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