I've got two associative arrays and want to get a new one, which is created out of both of them:

This works:

string[int] a = [1:"one", 7:"seven"];
string[int] b = [5:"five", 9:"nine"];

string[int] tmp = a.dup;
foreach (k,v;b) tmp[k] = v;

assert(tmp==[1:"one", 7:"seven", 5:"five", 9:"nine"]);

But is there something easier, especially without making that "tmp" explicit. I hoped for a~b, but that didn't work. (I allready know, that there aren't duplicated keys, if that matters.)

On Saturday, 24 August 2019 at 19:35:25 UTC, berni wrote:
> I've got two associative arrays and want to get a new one, which is created out of both of them:
>
> This works:
>
> string[int] a = [1:"one", 7:"seven"];
> string[int] b = [5:"five", 9:"nine"];
>
> string[int] tmp = a.dup;
> foreach (k,v;b) tmp[k] = v;
>
> assert(tmp==[1:"one", 7:"seven", 5:"five", 9:"nine"]);
>
> But is there something easier, especially without making that "tmp" explicit. I hoped for a~b, but that didn't work. (I allready know, that there aren't duplicated keys, if that matters.)

auto ab = a.byPair.chain( b.byPair).assocArray ?

On Saturday, 24 August 2019 at 19:55:48 UTC, a11e99z wrote:
> auto ab = a.byPair.chain( b.byPair).assocArray ?

Not sure, if it is simpler, but a least without tmp. :) Thanks.