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Traverse a Hashtable

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Java hashtables are widely used to maintain a mapping relationship between objects. It is easy to store, and retrieve an object from a hashtable using an arbitrary key. Sometimes, it is useful to get an enumeration of all the keys used on a hashtable. This can be done using the keys() method of java.util.Hashtable, as in:

     java.util.Enumeration keys = aHashTable.keys();    //aHashTable is an instance of java.util.Hashtable

Having all the keys used to map objects to a hashtable, we can traverse the entire hashtable and print out key-value pairs, as in:

     while( keys.hasMoreElements() )     {        Object aKey = keys.nextElement();        Object aValue = aHashTable.get(aKey);        System.out.println("Key: ""+aKey.toString()+"" has value of: "" +aValue.toString()+""");    }

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