Question

Can you do

array['Name'];

In C#

Rather than:

array[0];

I know you can do that in PHP but is there an equivelent for C#, although im thinking highley unlikely 🙁

Answer 1

it’s called a Dictionary in C#. Using generics you can actually index by any type. Like so:

Dictionary<Person, string> dictionary = new Dictionary<Person, string>();
Person myPerson = new Person(); 
dictionary[myPerson] = "Some String";
...
string someString = dictionary[myPerson];
Console.WriteLine(someString);

This obviously prints, “Some String” to the console.

This is an example of the flexibility of the dictionary. You can do it with a string as an index too, like you asked for.