HashTable

[Steven Leow]

Does anyone know what if i use put() to insert a value to an existing key?

[Manfred Leonhardt]

Hi Steven,
Last one in wins! It will replace the last object with the newer one.
Regards,
Manfred.

[Mike Curwen]

On the up side, the put method does return the previous value. So if you get a null returned, you know you didn't overwrite something. But if you do replace another mapping, the old value is returned.

[Steven Leow]

How is the hasttable used in a chat program?
I mean the Key contains what? and the Values contains what? From what i know they contains things which enables the server to "look" for the clients...

[karl koch]

hi,
there are lot of things to do with hashtables. what is it your looking for ? do you have a specific problem ?
you could use it to "map" a username to the ip/port (eg. for whsipering to a special user).

karl