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Since the key is a primitive type, EmployeeMap maps to containers.Map. We can use it as shown below:

em = EmployeeMapcontainers.new(Map('KeyType', 'int64', 'ValueType', 'any');
 
e = Employee();
e.number = 31;
e.firstName = 'James';
e.lastName = 'Gosling';
 
em(e.number) = e;

The new function is especially useful for dictionaries that map to containers.Map because this class must be constructed with the appropriate key and value types. For example, instead of calling EmployeeMap.new, we can manually construct containers.Map as follows:

em = containers.Map('KeyType', 'int64', 'ValueType', 'any');

We recommend using the new function to reduce the possibility of run-time errors.

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The value for KeyType and ValueType depends on the corresponding Slice type as shown in the following table:

Mapping to Structure Array

A dictionary with a structure key type maps to a native MATLAB struct structure array. This mapping sacrifices some functionality, most notably the efficient indexing provided by containers.Map, but it's a straightforward mapping that utilizes a the native MATLAB type that developers are likely to be familiar withstructure type.

Consider this example:

struct ID
{
    string symbol;
    string exchange;
}
 
dictionary<ID, double> Quotes;

We can construct this dictionary in MATLAB as follows:

quotes = []; % Or call Quotes.new()
quotes(1).key = ID('CVX', 'NYSE');
quotes(1).value = 100.00;

Each element of the struct structure array must have key and value fields whose types are compatible with those of correspond to the mapped types for the Slice dictionary's key and value.

An empty dictionary with a struct key type is mapped to an empty structure array with fields named key and value.

See Also

• Dictionaries