How to store a text file in a hash table in C#?

Question

I am fairly new to c#. I am creating a console application project for practice. I am supposed to create a program that reads a text file (it's a poem), store it in a hash table, have two different sorts, and unhash the table. I managed to get the poem read
by using streamwriter, but now I am not sure how to store it in a hash table. 
I'm not sure if I am doing this hash table correct, but I made my hash table like this to store the text file: 
      Hashtable hashtable = new Hashtable();
            hashtable[1] = (@"C:\\Documents\\Datastructures\\Input\\Poem");

Answer 1

Hi,
Hashtable in C# represents a collection of key/value pairs which maps keys to value. Any non-null object can be used as a key but a value can. We can retrieve  items from hashTable to provide the key . Both keys and values are Objects.
Here is a sample about Hashtable,
Hashtable weeks = new Hashtable();
weeks.Add("1", "SunDay");
weeks.Add("2", "MonDay");
weeks.Add("3", "TueDay");
weeks.Add("4", "WedDay");
weeks.Add("5", "ThuDay");
weeks.Add("6", "FriDay");
weeks.Add("7", "SatDay");
//Display a single Item
MessageBox.Show(weeks["5"].ToString());
//Search an Item
if (weeks.ContainsValue("TueDay"))
MessageBox.Show("Find");
else
MessageBox.Show("Not find");
//remove an Item
weeks.Remove("3");
//Display all key value pairs
foreach (DictionaryEntry day in weeks)
MessageBox.Show(day.Key + " - " + day.Value);
>>I managed to get the poem read by using streamwriter, but now I am not sure how to store it in a hash table
Hashtable hashtable = new Hashtable();
hashtable[1] = (@"C:\\Documents\\Datastructures\\Input\\Poem");
But follow your scenario above, you just store a string path to hashtable not a file.
About saving data to a file, you can use the following code.
// Write the string to a file.
System.IO.StreamWriter file = new System.IO.StreamWriter("c:\\test.txt");
file.WriteLine(lines);
file.Close();
Best wishes!
Kristin
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