How to get element position from Java Map

Question

I have this Java Map:

Can you tell me how I can get the 6-th element of the Map?

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Answer 1

A HashMap does not maintain the order of the elements inserted in it. You can used a LinkedHashMap instead which maintains the order of the elements inserted in it.

Though you need to note that even a LinkedHashMap has no such method which would give the element at a particular index. You will have to manually iterate through the entries and extract the element at the 6th iteration.