Dictionary returning a default value if the key does not exist [duplicate]

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TryGetValue will already assign the default value for the type to the dictionary, so you can just use:

dictionary.TryGetValue(key, out value);

and just ignore the return value. However, that really will just return default(TValue), not some custom default value (nor, more usefully, the result of executing a delegate). There’s nothing more powerful built into the framework. I would suggest two extension methods:

public static TValue GetValueOrDefault<TKey, TValue>(
    this IDictionary<TKey, TValue> dictionary,
    TKey key,
    TValue defaultValue)
{
    return dictionary.TryGetValue(key, out var value) ? value : defaultValue;
}

public static TValue GetValueOrDefault<TKey, TValue>(
    this IDictionary<TKey, TValue> dictionary,
    TKey key,
    Func<TValue> defaultValueProvider)
{
    return dictionary.TryGetValue(key, out var value) ? value : defaultValueProvider();
}

(You may want to put argument checking in, of course 🙂

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