usage of collections.. please suggest

hello everyone,

I need to setup a simple way of retrieving data using the collections frameworks here is the problem

eg,

codevalues

100 "a","b", "c"

500 "w","er", "oo"

..

..etc (limited no. of codes and values)

previously I was using the if-else statements, ie,

if value == "a" ||value =="b"

code = 100;

....etc

now I was just studying the collections framework and thought that I can retrieve the code from the values much easier using them.

Any ideas on how I can use collections?

currently I was thinking of using a Hashtable, eg,

-

String [ ] value = {"a", "b","w"...etc};

int [ ] code = {100,100,500,..etc};

table = new Hashtable();

for(i=0;i<xx;i++)

table.put(value,code);

-

and then for retrieval use

getCode = table.get(value);

--

is there a better option than this, maybe a way to use more than one collection

thanks>

[1013 byte] By [KsRa] at [2007-11-27 2:15:34]