How can I get keys from Hashtable in the same order?

Question

Hello, everyone.
I have a Hashtable containing key-value pairs, I need to get the keys in the same order as I use
method put(key,value) to save the key-value pairs. But I can only find Hashtable.keys() to fetch the keys in form of Enumeration and when retrieve the keys from the Enumeration,they are not in the original order!
The following is my code:
Hashtable ht = new Hashtable();
ht.put("Name","Harry Bott");
ht.put("Gender","Male");
ht.put("Age","25");
String[] Items = new String[ht.size()];
Enumeration e = ht.keys();
int i = 0;
while(e.hasMoreElements()) {
Items[i++] =(String)(e.nextElement());
The Items contains the keys but they are not in the original order.
Does anyone know how to get the keys from a Hashtable in the same order when they're put?
Thank you!

Answer 1

yeah, another solution is to stored keys on a Collection at the same time you put them on the HashMap with its values.
Then when ur going to retrieve objects from the Map u iterate the Collection that has the ordered keys and use them.