Which data structure would you use: TreeMap or HashMap? (Java) [duplicate]

Answer 1

Here is the java example for reading a text file, sorting based on key, then upon values; depending on the number of occurrence of a words in the file.

public class SortFileWords {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        HashMap map = new HashMap();
        ValueCompare vc = new ValueCompare(map);
        TreeMap sorted_map = new TreeMap(map);
        List list = new ArrayList<>();
        Scanner sc;
        try {
            sc = new Scanner(new File("c:\\ReadMe1.txt"));
            while (sc.hasNext()) {
                list.add(sc.next());
            }
            sc.close();
        } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        for (String s : list) {
            if (map.containsKey(s)) {
                map.put(s, map.get(s) + 1);
            } else
                map.put(s, 1);
        }

        System.out.println("Unsorted map: " + map);
        sorted_map.putAll(map);
        System.out.println("Sorted map on keys: " + sorted_map);

        TreeMap sorted_value_map = new TreeMap<>(vc);
        sorted_value_map.putAll(map);
        System.out.println("Sorted map on values: " + sorted_value_map);
    }
}

class ValueCompare implements Comparator {

    Map map;

    public ValueCompare(Map map) {
        this.map = map;
    }

    @Override
    public int compare(String s1, String s2) {
        if (map.get(s1) >= map.get(s2))
            return -1;
        else
            return 1;
    }
}