java.util.Hashtable.toString() Method

Description

The toString() method is used to get a string representation of this Hashtable object in the form of a set of entries.

Declaration

Following is the declaration for java.util.Hashtable.toString() method.

public String toString()

Parameters

• NA

Return Value

The method call returns a string representation of this hashtable.

Exception

• NA

Example

The following example shows the usage of java.util.Hashtable.toString()

package com.tutorialspoint;

import java.util.*;

public class HashTableDemo {
   public static void main(String args[]) {
      // create hash table 
      Hashtable htable = new Hashtable(3); 
      
      // populate the table
      htable.put(1, "TP");
      htable.put(2, "IS");
      htable.put(3, "THE");
      htable.put(4, "BEST");
      htable.put(5, "TUTORIAL");
      
      System.out.println("String form of hash table is: "+htable.toString()); 
   }    
}

Let us compile and run the above program, this will produce the following result.

String form of hash table is: {5=TUTORIAL, 4=BEST, 3=THE, 2=IS, 1=TP}