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Java

Posted by Nirbhay Agarwal
Nirbhay Agarwal
2,852 Points

Can someone explain what this does is doing exactly here

for (Map.Entry<String, String> option : mMenu.entrySet()) {
      System.out.printf("%s - %s %n",
                        option.getKey(),
                        option.getValue());

We have a map and its printing getKey() and getValue() of what of this ????????

mMenu is a map here:
mMenu.put("add", "Add a new song to the song book");
      mMenu.put("quit", "Give up.  Exit the program");

1 Answer

Craig Dennis
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Craig Dennis
Treehouse Teacher
Craig Dennis
Craig Dennis
Treehouse Teacher

Hi Nirbhay Agarwal !

So each time you put something into a map, you are adding an entry. An entry consists of a key and a value. So that enhanced for loop is looping through each entry in the map. It can be read as for each entry in the map....

getKey is getting the key portion so "add" is a key and "Add a new song to the songbook" is the value.

Does that make sense?

Nirbhay Agarwal
Nirbhay Agarwal
2,852 Points

Yup Craig its grt I completed the KaraokeMachine concept... Thanks