When you want to store and look up the values based on a unique key, then the Dictionary type Dict
(also called hash, associative collection, or map in other languages) is what you need. It is basically a collection of two-element tuples of the form (key, value)
. To define a dictionary d1
as a literal value, the following syntax is used:
// code in Chapter 5\dicts.jl: d1 = [1 => 4.2, 2 => 5.3]
It returns Dict{Int64,Float64}
with 2 entries: 2 => 5.3 1 => 4.2
, so there are two key-value tuples here, (1, 4.2)
and (2, 5.3)
; the key appears before the =>
symbol and the value appears after it, and the tuples are separated by commas. The [ ]
indicates a typed dictionary; all the keys must have the same type, and the same is true for the values. A dynamic version of a dictionary can be defined with { }
:
d1 = {1 => 4.2, 2 => 5.3}
isDict{Any,Any}
d2 = {"a" => 1, (2,3) => true}
isDict{Any,Any}
Any
is also inferred when a common type among the keys or values...