Is there an IDictionary implementation that, on missing key, returns the default value instead of throwing?

Question

The indexer into Dictionary throws an exception if the key is missing. Is there an implementation of IDictionary that instead will return de

Answer 1

It could be a one-liner to check TryGetValue and return default value if it is false.

 Dictionary myDic = new Dictionary() { { "One", 1 }, { "Four", 4} };
 string myKey = "One"
 int value = myDic.TryGetValue(myKey, out value) ? value : 100;

myKey = "One" => value = 1

myKey = "two" => value = 100

myKey = "Four" => value = 4

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