Finding spelling of an element in an ignore case dictionary

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Published on 2010-05-12T22:01:48Z Indexed on 2010/05/12 22:04 UTC
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Hi,

Weird question, but I have a dictionary created with StringComparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase, looks something like this AaA, 10 aAB, 20 AAC, 12

I then use myDictionary["AAA"] to find the value associated with the key, but what I also need to know is what the actual spelling of the key is in myDictionary, e.g. in this case I want it to return AaA. Any way to do this without a loop? Thx.

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