How to loop through a SortedList, getting both the key and the value

Question

The following code loops through a list and gets the values, but how would I write a similar statement that gets both the keys and the values

foreach (string value in list.Values)
{
    Console.WriteLine(value);
}

e.g something like this

    foreach (string value in list.Values)
{
    Console.WriteLine(value);
        Console.WriteLine(list.key);
}

code for the list is:

SortedList<string, string> list = new SortedList<string, string>();

Answer 1

foreach (KeyValuePair<string, string> kvp in list)
{
    Console.WriteLine(kvp.Value);
    Console.WriteLine(kvp.Key);
}

From msdn:

GetEnumerator returns an enumerator of type KeyValuePair<TKey, TValue> that iterates through the SortedList<TKey, TValue>.

As Jon stated, you can use var keyword instead of writing type name of iteration variable (type will be inferred from usage):

foreach (var kvp in list)
{
    Console.WriteLine(kvp.Value);
    Console.WriteLine(kvp.Key);
}

Answer 2

Apologies...

this was wrong topic (loop through values). My issue was looping through the key value pairs, not just the values. Will leave this here if there are no objections as a possible option to get values from SortedList collection.

I just tried to figure out this error as well and my solution was to use the DictionaryEntry type to replace the erroring out KeyValuePair type. Found from MS reference https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.collections.dictionaryentry(v=vs.100).aspx

In my case, I had code creating a SortedList type collection and neither the var or KeyValuePair types worked (var errored out when trying to read the key/value from the collection item and the KeyValuePair errored out in the initial loop definition. Both errored out with "Specified cast is not valid" )

So here is sample of code that worked for me:

SortedList _dims = GetList("mysortedlist");
foreach (DictionaryEntry kvp in _dims)
{
    Console.WriteLine(kvp.Key.ToString());
    Console.WriteLine(kvp.Value.ToString()); 
}

HTH

Dave

Answer 3

Just iterated using the keys and get the value for each key:

SortedList<string, string> info = new SortedList<string, string>();

info.Add("path", "път");
info.Add("folder", "директория");
info.Add("directory", "директория");
info.Add("file", "Файл");

foreach (string key in info.Keys)
{
 Console.WriteLine("\t{0}\t{1}", key, info[key]);
}

Answer 4

 bool value = list[key];

this can help you.