Data pair mapping data structure

[Alan T]

I have pairs of data:
peter - manager
mary - secretary
john - accountant
alan - security

What data structure is suitable for storing these data pairs so that I can
get the counterpart ?
If I have peter then I want to know he is a manager.

[Frans Bouma [C# MVP]]

Re: Data pair mapping data structure

Alan T wrote:

I have pairs of data:
peter - manager
mary - secretary
john - accountant
alan - security
>
What data structure is suitable for storing these data pairs so that
I can get the counterpart ?
If I have peter then I want to know he is a manager.

You could opt for a hashtable, with the name as the key and the
jobdescription as the value.

This only works if the name is unique of course :).

FB

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