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Put an element into the Dictionary
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#region License and Copyright
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* Dotnet Commons Collections
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*
* Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
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#endregion
using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Text;
namespace Dotnet.Commons.Collections
{
///
/// <summary>
///
/// This utility class extends the operations for manipulating
/// Dictionary collections.
///
///
/// </summary>
///
public class DictionaryUtils
{
private DictionaryUtils()
{
}
/// <summary>
/// Put an element into the Dictionary
/// </summary>
/// <param name="IDictionary"></param>
/// <param name="key"></param>
/// <param name="newValue"></param>
/// <returns></returns>
public static object PutElement(IDictionary dict,
object key,
object newValue)
{
System.Object element = dict[key];
dict[key] = newValue;
return element;
}
public static string ToString(IDictionary srcDict)
{
if (srcDict == null)
return String.Empty;
StringBuilder buffy = new StringBuilder();
buffy.Append("[");
buffy.Append(srcDict.GetType().ToString());
buffy.Append("] @");
buffy.Append(srcDict.GetHashCode());
buffy.Append(Environment.NewLine);
foreach(object key in srcDict.Keys)
{
buffy.Append("{");
buffy.Append(key.ToString());
buffy.Append("=");
buffy.Append(srcDict[key].ToString());
buffy.Append("}");
buffy.Append(Environment.NewLine);
}
return buffy.ToString();
}
}
}
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