Question

Current i am using this method to determine if a character is online:

    public bool OnlineByServer(string username)
    {
        foreach (Character c in this.characters.Values)
        {
            if (c != null && c.Username.Equals(username))
            {
                return true;
            }
        }
        return false;
    }

Is there a faster way to do this?

Answer 1

There isn’t really a faster way of doing it, if you want to keep the characters as the dictionary Values. Due to being unsorted, a linear O(n) search has to be done.