I have a NameValueCollection
, and want to iterate through the values. Currently, I’m doing this, but it seems like there should be a neater way to do it:
NameValueCollection nvc = new NameValueCollection();
nvc.Add("Test", "Val1");
nvc.Add("Test2", "Val1");
nvc.Add("Test2", "Val1");
nvc.Add("Test2", "Val2");
nvc.Add("Test3", "Val1");
nvc.Add("Test4", "Val4");
foreach (string s in nvc)
foreach (string v in nvc.GetValues(s))
Console.WriteLine("{0} {1}", s, v);
Console.ReadLine();
Is there?
You can flatten the collection with Linq, but it's still a foreach
loop but now more implicit.
var items = nvc.AllKeys.SelectMany(nvc.GetValues, (k, v) => new {key = k, value = v});
foreach (var item in items)
Console.WriteLine("{0} {1}", item.key, item.value);
The first line, converts the nested collection to a (non-nested) collection of anonymous objects with the properties key and value.
It's flatten in the way that it's now a mapping key -> value instead of key -> collection of values. The example data:
Before:
Test -> [Val],
Test2 -> [Val1, Val1, Val2],
Test3 -> [Val1],
Test4 -> [Val4]
After:
Test -> Val,
Test2 -> Val1,
Test2 -> Val1,
Test2 -> Val2,
Test3 -> Val1,
Test4 -> Val4
You can use the key for lookup instead of having two loops:
foreach (string key in nvc)
{
Console.WriteLine("{0} {1}", key, nvc[key]);
}
Nothing new to see here (@Julian's +1'd by me answer is functionally equivalent), y'all move along y'all please.
I have an [overkill for this case but possibly relevant] set of extension methods in an answer to a related question, which would let you do:
foreach ( KeyValuePair<string,string> item in nvc.AsEnumerable().AsKeyValuePairs() )
Console.WriteLine("{0} {1}", item.key, item.value);
The only way I found to avoid the nested loops is using additional List to store the values:
List<string> arrValues = new List<string>();
for (int i = 0; i < nvc.Count; i++)
arrValues.AddRange(nvc.GetValues(i));
foreach (string value in arrValues)
Console.WriteLine(value);
(Requires [only] .NET 2.0 or later)
I think this is simpler:
For i As Integer = 0 To nvc.Count - 1
Console.Write("No", "Key", "Value")
Console.Write(i, nvc.GetKey(i), nvc.Get(i))
Next
foreach ( string key in nvc.Keys )
Console.WriteLine("{0} {1}", key, nvc[key]);
This will return you all keys and corresponding values.