How do I get object from HashMap respectively? [duplicate]

Question

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How do I iterate over each Entry in a Map?

I make the personal profiles database,and I use HashMap to collect profile.

private HashMap<String, Profile> database;

but I want to write profile data to text files

PrintWriter fileOut = new PrintWriter(new FileWriter(fileName));
fileOut.println(database.size());
for(int i = 0; i < database.size();i++){
 Profile eachProfile = database.get(key);
}

But I don't know how to get list of key to looping How can I get data from HashMap respectively with another ways?

Answer 1

You could use Map.entrySet() and extended for:

for (Map.Entry<String, Profile> e: database.entrySet())
{
    String s  = e.getKey();
    Profile p = e.getValue();
}