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layout: "language"
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page_title: "map - Functions - Configuration Language"
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sidebar_current: "docs-funcs-collection-map"
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description: |-
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The map function constructs a map from some given elements.
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---
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# `map` Function
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The `map` function is no longer available. Prior to Terraform v0.12 it was
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the only available syntax for writing a literal map inside an expression,
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but Terraform v0.12 introduced a new first-class syntax.
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To update an expression like `map("a", "b", "c", "d")`, write the following instead:
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```
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tomap({
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a = "b"
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c = "d"
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})
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```
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The `{ ... }` braces construct an object value, and then the `tomap` function
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then converts it to a map. For more information on the value types in the
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Terraform language, see [Type Constraints](/docs/language/expressions/types.html).
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## Related Functions
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* [`tomap`](./tomap.html) converts an object value to a map.
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* [`zipmap`](./zipmap.html) constructs a map dynamically, by taking keys from
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one list and values from another list.
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