[Mono-list] Re: Checking key existance in a NameValueCollection

[Arnaud Bienvenu]

Shawn Vose a écrit :
> I think it should be in a try statement because if the key doesnt exist 
> it will throw an  exception.

No, it will not. This is from NameValueCollection.Get documentation :

"Return Value : A String that contains a comma-separated list of the 
values associated with the specified key from the NameValueCollection, 
if found; otherwise, a null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic)."

I guess the [] operator uses the Get method. I made a test, it does not 
throw any exception when I read Request.Form["nonexistantkey"]. You may 
have mixed up things with another cool language, Python, where it would 
throw a KeyError exception.

> Additionally in c# it would use [] instead of ()

This is right :)

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Arnaud Bienvenu
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