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.GetUpperBound 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]]

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.

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

Having several variables for data which is intrinsically connected like
this isn't a good idea.

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'

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

 

[Kevin Blount]

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