Q:
How to retrieve a single key out of multiple hashmaps?
I have 4 hashmaps. One of them is a string, the others are numeric. Each hashmap represents a piece of a picture.
I have no problem creating the hashmaps and putting the values I want to them.
I know that I can use the get method on a map, but how can I get a single value out of a map?
A:
It's not clear what the type of the elements are, but if they are all Strings then you can use Map#get which is a void method that will always return a String. So:
String s = map.get("key");
As a side note, it's generally better to use Map#containsKey rather than Map#get as this will throw an exception if the key isn't present rather than returning null.
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