getOrDefaultCall

2.12

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Only available in Development branch(es) until its release with Arma 3 patch v2.12.

Description

Description:

Retrieves a value from the HashMap for the given 'key', executes given 'code' if key was not found and returns result. Additionally sets key to the code result value if 'set' is true.

Groups:

HashMap

Syntax

Syntax:

hashMap getOrDefaultCall [key, code, set]

Parameters:

hashMap: HashMap

key: HashMapKey - Case sensitive key

code: Code - (Optional, default nil) - Code to execute if the key does not exist

set: Boolean - (Optional, default false) if true and value does not exist in provided hash map, the result of the 'code' execution will be added to the hash map

Return Value:

Anything

Examples

Example 1:

_hashmap getOrDefaultCall [123, { systemChat "The key 123 does not exist and will be created and assigned 345"; 345 }, true]

Additional Information

See also:

getOrDefault HashMap get

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