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Reputation: 190769

Do I get the elements in Dictionary in a FIFO way with foreach in C#?

I have C# Dictionary.

Dictionary<string, string> map = new Dictionary<string, string>();
map["x"] = "1";
map["z"] = "2";
map["y"] = "0";

When I get the keys with foreach, I get the value of "x"-"z"-"y". And this is the sequence that I give input to the map.

foreach (var pair in map)
{
    Console.WriteLine(pair.Key);
}

Is this guaranteed behavior? I mean, with Dictionary, do I always get the elements in FIFO way with foreach?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 2169

Answers (2)

Michael S. Scherotter
Michael S. Scherotter

Reputation: 10785

They are typically ordered by the key - x, y, z in your case.

Upvotes: -1

Russ Clarke
Russ Clarke

Reputation: 17909

Nope, A dictionary is not guaranteed to order its contents in the way they were inserted.

To quote the blurb from MSDN:

'For purposes of enumeration, each item in the dictionary is treated as a KeyValuePair(Of TKey, TValue) structure representing a value and its key. The order in which the items are returned is undefined.'

Upvotes: 6

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