In service, use string to refer to array I should use?

[pantagruel]

Hi,

I have a service which does posting of messages dependent on CSV
input. Dependent on what the first line of the CSV is different fields
must be extracted and placed into a message. I would like to do it in
the following manner:

x = string value of csv field.

get array name = value of x

so if x = "Y"

then I can do Y[1] and so forth. I would like to avoid having this
using a bunch of logic to return the arrays, is there anything in .Net
or Csharp that allows this kind of thing? Is reflection the answer?
and if so can someone point me to some relevant examples?
Thanks.

[wisccal]

You could use a Dictionary like so:

....
string x = "Y";
Dictionary<string, string[]dict = new Dictionary<string,
string[]>();
dict.Add(x, new string[]{x});
Console.WriteLine("value of {0} is {1}", "Y", dict["Y"][0]);
....

==================
Regards,
Steve
www.foxville.ch

On Sep 25, 6:13 am, pantagruel <[e-mail]:

Hi,

I have a service which does posting of messages dependent on CSV
input. Dependent on what the first line of the CSV is different fields
must be extracted and placed into a message. I would like to do it in
the following manner:

x = string value of csv field.

get array name = value of x

so if x = "Y"

then I can do Y[1] and so forth. I would like to avoid having this
using a bunch of logic to return the arrays, is there anything in .Net
or Csharp that allows this kind of thing? Is reflection the answer?
and if so can someone point me to some relevant examples?
Thanks.

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pantagruel,
If you want to work with your CSV format data in arrays, you are going to
need to parse the data and populate the arrays with the values. There is a
recent post in this forum where a reader recommended a good CSV parsing class
that can be found on the codeproject.com site.
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"pantagruel" wrote:

Hi,

I have a service which does posting of messages dependent on CSV
input. Dependent on what the first line of the CSV is different fields
must be extracted and placed into a message. I would like to do it in
the following manner:

x = string value of csv field.

get array name = value of x

so if x = "Y"

then I can do Y[1] and so forth. I would like to avoid having this
using a bunch of logic to return the arrays, is there anything in .Net
or Csharp that allows this kind of thing? Is reflection the answer?
and if so can someone point me to some relevant examples?
Thanks.