Item Default Property, Dictionary class

Description

The Item property returns or sets the value of a given Dictionary key.

Syntax

vItem = Dictionary.Item (Key as String)
Dictionary.Item (Key as String) = vItem

Where	Type	Optional	Default	Description
Key	String			Key associated with the item being retrieved or added.

Returns

Variant

Examples

Simple Item sample

  Dim D As New Multi.Dictionary
  
  D("Alex") = 2534
  D("Martin") = 3812
  D("Dave") = 1532
  
  Dim ID
  ID = D("Dave")
  ID = D("Martin")

Other links for Item

Methods of Dictionary class

Add, Connect, Exists, Lock, Remove, RemoveAll, UniqueKeys, Unlock

Properties of Dictionary class

CompareMode, Count, Item, Items, ItemsCount, Key, Keys, KeysCount

Multi.Dictionary

Free threaded dictionary object. Lets you work with unique/non-unique keys, any VARIANT values and connect to other dictionary in the same process.
Dictionary is a COM class specially designed as a free-threaded dictionary in Application scope of ASP/ASP.Net pages. It also works with script other engines in VB Script and JScript (ASP,ASP.Net, WSH, CHM, HTA), VB Net, Visual basic (VBA - VB 5, VB 6, Word, Excel, Access, …), C#, J#, C++, ASP, ASP.Net, Delphi and with T-SQL OLE functions - see Use ByteArray object article. You can also use the object in other programming environments with COM support, such is PowerBuilder.
Source code for Dictionary is available within distribution license, please see License page for Multi Dictionary or License page for ScriptUtilities and Huge ASP file upload.

Multi

Multithreaded dictionary object. Lets you work with unique/non-unique keys in VBA/VBS/ASP/WHS envinronment (share application/session variables in ASP)

	Item
	Default Property
	Member of Multi.Dictionary