How can I get Key from their respective Values

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If I have the value "Avengers", and a HashMap<String> hm for which hm.containsValue("Avengers") returns true.

How can I get the corresponding key? Do I have to loop through the hashmap? What is the best way to do this?

May 16, 2018 in Java by sharth
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public class NewClass1 {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
       Map<Integer, String> testMaps = new HashMap<Integer, String>();
        testMaps.put(10, "a");
        testMaps.put(20, "b");
        testMaps.put(30, "c");
        testMaps.put(40, "d");
        for (Entry<Integer, String> entry : testMaps.entrySet()) {
            if (entry.getValue().equals("c")) {
                System.out.println(entry.getKey());
            }
        }
    }
}

Above method may not be good if your hashmap is really big. If your hashmap contain unique key to unique value mapping, you can maintain one more hashmap that contain mapping from Value to Key.

That is you have to maintain two hashmaps

1. Key to value 

2. Value to key

answered May 16, 2018 by Parth
• 4,640 points

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