Array with string index

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John

Hi

Is there a way to create an array of strings of subscript of type index too?
Like;

x("Element A")="Value for element A"

Thanks

Regards
 
Hi

Is there a way to create an array of strings of subscript of type index too?
Like;

x("Element A")="Value for element A"

Thanks

Regards
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Others have suggested System.Collections.Hashtable, but I would like to
throw out, System.Collections.Specialized.StringDictionary.
 
What are the advantages of StringDictionary over hashtable?

Thanks

Regards
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It's typesafe. It only takes strings as keys and only takes strings as
values. Hashtable takes object, so you have to do a lot of casting :)
 
John,
In addition to HashTable & StringDictionary, there are:

System.Collections.DictionaryBase - for creating your own type safe
dictionaries (hash tables)

System.Collections.Specialized.NameObjectCollectionBase - for creating your
own type safe that are keyed by Strings & indexed.

System.Collections.Specialized.NameValueCollection which is similar to
StringDictionary, however also supports being indexed by an integer...

Basically check out the various collections in both System.Collections &
System.Collections.Specialized.

Hope this helps
Jay
 
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