Array type

[Maziar Aflatoun]

Hi everyone,

Is there a type of array that would do the follow?
Store key/value pair
Return the current index in the array for a key or value?

BTW, I also need to bind it to a dropdown list .

Than you
Maz.

[teknohippy]

On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 12:33:22 -0500, "Maziar Aflatoun"
<ma***@rogers.com> wrote:

Hi everyone,

Is there a type of array that would do the follow?
Store key/value pair
Return the current index in the array for a key or value?

BTW, I also need to bind it to a dropdown list .

Than you
Maz.

http://www.w3schools.com/aspnet/aspnet_hashtable.asp

--
Iain Norman | http://www.eliteforum.org

[Maziar Aflatoun]

I have seen this but as far as I know it doesn't let me find out the array
index. For example search for a key or value and returning the index number.
Any idea?

Thanks
Maz.
"teknohippy" <an******@me.com> wrote in message
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On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 12:33:22 -0500, "Maziar Aflatoun"
<ma***@rogers.com> wrote:

Hi everyone,

Is there a type of array that would do the follow?
Store key/value pair
Return the current index in the array for a key or value?

BTW, I also need to bind it to a dropdown list .

Than you
Maz.

http://www.w3schools.com/aspnet/aspnet_hashtable.asp

--
Iain Norman | http://www.eliteforum.org

[Karl Seguin]

Yes, the hashtable won't work well for your needs.

You'll have to create your own custom collection either by inheriting
CollectionBase, or since you have similar needs as a HashTable and Arraylist
from one of those two.

Karl

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"Maziar Aflatoun" <ma***@rogers.com> wrote in message
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I have seen this but as far as I know it doesn't let me find out the array
index. For example search for a key or value and returning the index number. Any idea?

Thanks
Maz.
"teknohippy" <an******@me.com> wrote in message
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On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 12:33:22 -0500, "Maziar Aflatoun"
<ma***@rogers.com> wrote:

Hi everyone,

Is there a type of array that would do the follow?
Store key/value pair
Return the current index in the array for a key or value?

BTW, I also need to bind it to a dropdown list .

Than you
Maz.

http://www.w3schools.com/aspnet/aspnet_hashtable.asp

--
Iain Norman | http://www.eliteforum.org

[IPGrunt]

"Maziar Aflatoun" <ma***@rogers.com> confessed in news:Er2dnaiLktvHRmrcRVn-
[e-mail]:

I have seen this but as far as I know it doesn't let me find out the array index. For example search for a key or value and returning the index number. Any idea?

Thanks
Maz.
"teknohippy" <an******@me.com> wrote in message
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On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 12:33:22 -0500, "Maziar Aflatoun"
<ma***@rogers.com> wrote:

Hi everyone,

Is there a type of array that would do the follow?
Store key/value pair
Return the current index in the array for a key or value?

BTW, I also need to bind it to a dropdown list .

Than you
Maz.

http://www.w3schools.com/aspnet/aspnet_hashtable.asp

--
Iain Norman | http://www.eliteforum.org

Is this what you're looking for?
// here's the Name/Value structure

public struct NameValue
{
private string theName;
private int theValue;

public NameValue(string aName , int Id)
{
theName = aName;
theValue = Id;
}
public string getName
{
get {return theName;}
}

public int getValue
{
get {return theValue;}
}
}

// then when I use it:

System.Collections.ArrayList theList = new ArrayList();

while (something)
{
int aVal;
string aName;

aVal = x;
aName = y;

theList.Add(new NameValue(aName, aVal));
}
Is that what you're looking for? (I use this kind of code to initialize
DropDownList controls from s datastore.)
-- ipgrunt

[teknohippy]

On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 13:03:11 -0500, "Maziar Aflatoun"
<ma***@rogers.com> wrote:

I have seen this but as far as I know it doesn't let me find out the array
index. For example search for a key or value and returning the index number.
Any idea?

Thanks
Maz.

Sorry that was a last thing, skim read, I'm a tosser cockup and a
half.

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Iain Norman | http://www.eliteforum.org

[William F. Robertson, Jr.]

System.Collection.SortedList might work like you are expecting.

bill
"Maziar Aflatoun" <ma***@rogers.com> wrote in message
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Hi everyone,

Is there a type of array that would do the follow?
Store key/value pair
Return the current index in the array for a key or value?

BTW, I also need to bind it to a dropdown list .

Than you
Maz.