Yes - the hashtable hashes the order
Best approach to this
1) Store in a vector
2) When you are done say
MyDataType[] SortedData = new MyDataType[MyVector.size()];
MyVector.copyInto(SortedData);
now store in the Hashtable and dump the vector if you need a hashtable
for fast lookup
At 10:33 AM 3/23/99 -0500, you wrote:
>I have a servlet that pulls demographic data rowsets (sorted alphabetically
>by last name) from a database. I then place information into a Hashtable()
>using last name as the key and vectors as the stored objects. When I pull
>out an Enumeration of the hashtable keys and then print them out they are
>not in the same order that I put them into the hashtable! I lose the alpha
>sorting from the original rowsets.
>
>Is there something in Enumeration that causes the keys to come out in any
>old order? Is there something in Hashtable? Is there a simple way to fix
>this?
>
>Darren
>
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