newbie casting problem

[wolfofthenorth]

I am having some trouble incrementing a value in a hashtable.

I'm new to C#.

Here's some of the things I tried to do, none of them worked.

myhashtable[mykeys[i]]++; Operator not defined

myInt32 = Int32(myhashtable[mykeys[i]]); class Int32 invalid in context.
myInt32++;

How can i cast the value in my hash table to an integer?

Thanks for any help.

[kovan]

there should be a ToInt32() on the hash table key or value

[wolfofthenorth]

I was trying to get the value of the object with syntax like this

myHashtable[myKey].

The style above didn't expose a ToInt32() method only a ToString().

Do I have to use an IEnumerator interface to get to the keys or values that do expose it?


Here's what Im doing in VB .NET. I wanted to try it in C#.

wrds is a string array and htWords is a hashtable.

For i = 0 To wrds.GetUpperBound(0)
If Not htWords.ContainsKey(wrds(i)) Then
htWords.Add(wrds(i), 1)
Else
'Here is the line Im having trouble with.
htWords(wrds(i)) = CType(htWords(wrds(i)), Integer) + 1
End If
Next

Thanks for any help.

[wolfofthenorth]

Oops. I meant IDictionaryEnumerator to get to the Keys and values.

[DevGrp]

Try Convert.ToInt32();

[wolfofthenorth]

Thanks! That was exactly what I was looking for.

[DevGrp]

No Problem