builds a hashtable from properties. the key list is in the property keyListPropertyName
Example getHashtable(props,"keylist") returns a hashtable with 3 key-value entry
keylist=bar;bubba;foo
bar=BAR
foo=1.5;float
bubba=100;int
builds a map from properties. the key list is in the property keyListPropertyName
Example getMap(props,"keylist") returns a hashtable with 3 key-value entry
keylist=bar;bubba;foo
bar=BAR
foo=1.5;float
bubba=100;int
builds a (ordered) vector from properties. the index list is in the property keyListPropertyName
Example getVector(props,"tab") returns a 4 elements vector (tab.5 is ignored since tab.4 does not exist)
tab.0=bar
tab.1=foo
tab.2=1.5;float
tab.3=100;int
tab.5=10000;long