How would you handle this? array or object?

[Kevin Blount]

Let me first state that I'm a new C# (ASP.NET) developer, spending the
last 8 years with ASP and having attended 2 fairly basic ASP.NET
courses, so my knowledge is a dangerous case of "I know how to do that
in ASP, so it must be possible in ASP.NET"

Here's what I want to do, which oddly is not something I've done in
ASP:

I have a set of string in pairs, such as

sUsernameAAA = "aaa"
sPasswordAAA = "aaap"

sUsernameBBB = "bbb"
sPasswordBBB = "bbbp"

sUsernameCCC = "ccc"
sPasswordCCC = "cccp"

up to, say, FFF.

I pass to a function that uses these a string such as "bbb". I want to
loop through all these values until a match on a 'Username' is found,
and then set a new variable to be the corresponding 'Password'

my thought was that I could create an Array, such as "string[,]
myStrings { {"aaa","aaap "} {"bbb","bbbp "} {"ccc","cccp "} ... } and then
use a loop from 0 to myString.GetUpp erBound and check against the first
dimension until a match is found, then set the new password variable to
the second dimension.

Does that make sense? If so, is it a good method?

I was also wondering if an object could be used, though I'm not really
sure what I'm talking about here, but figured someone might ;)

any comments would be appreciated, as long as they are constructive and
understanding of my newness to ASP.NET and C#

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Re: How would you handle this? array or object?

Kevin Blount <kevin.blount@g mail.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> Let me first state that I'm a new C# (ASP.NET) developer, spending the
> last 8 years with ASP and having attended 2 fairly basic ASP.NET
> courses, so my knowledge is a dangerous case of "I know how to do that
> in ASP, so it must be possible in ASP.NET"
>
> Here's what I want to do, which oddly is not something I've done in
> ASP:
>
> I have a set of string in pairs, such as
>
> sUsernameAAA = "aaa"
> sPasswordAAA = "aaap"
>
> sUsernameBBB = "bbb"
> sPasswordBBB = "bbbp"
>
> sUsernameCCC = "ccc"
> sPasswordCCC = "cccp"
>
> up to, say, FFF.[/color]

That immediately suggests to me that you want a list or an array, with
each element being a reference to an instance of a UsernamePasswor d
class (or something like that).

Having several variables for data which is intrinsically connected like
this isn't a good idea.
[color=blue]
> I pass to a function that uses these a string such as "bbb". I want to
> loop through all these values until a match on a 'Username' is found,
> and then set a new variable to be the corresponding 'Password'[/color]

If that's all you need to do with them, use a map
(Dictionary<Str ing,String> in 2.0 or Hashtable in 1.1) with the
usernames as the keys and the passwords as the values.

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[Kevin Blount]

Re: How would you handle this? array or object?

Jon,

Thanks for the response (I was hoping you'd see this one <g>)

I'll work with the Hashtable (as I'm using 1.1) and see how I get on.

Cheers

Kevin