Question

For each item in the collection, I need to have a short string and a few int16 fields. I want to iterate through the collection using the string field (meaning I don’t want to use numeric index to iterate).
The collection is at most about 10 items. Thanks for any suggestions.

Answer 1

I think Dictionary<string, List<int>> should work for you needs.

Dictionary<string, List<int>> dictionary = new Dictionary<string, List<int>>();
dictionary.Add("key", new List<int>{1,2,3,4});
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