Question

Half the time I need to find a value based on string, their name, and the other half I need to find a value based on an int, their user ID.

Currently I have two dictionaries to solve this dilemma – one that uses a string as a key and one that uses an int as a key. I was wondering if there is a more efficient way to do this – a way to get a value based on int or string.

    public static Dictionary<int, Player> nPlayers = new Dictionary<int, Player>();
    public static Dictionary<string, Player> sPlayers = new Dictionary<string, Player>();

After scanning the other questions, someone mentioned using a dictionary of dictionaries. If anyone can elaborate on this (if it’s the solution I’m looking for), that’d be grand

I don’t know much about a tuple, but from what I understand it requires two keys, and what I am looking for takes one or the other.

Would Dictionary<object, Player> do the trick? I have no idea.

Please help me in my narrow-minded coding experience. ;_;

Answer 1

As per your comment when user logged in to system you adding them to a dictionary, here you have to add to both dictionaries.

I think you can do this in another way,

   public static List<Player> nPlayers = new List<Player>();

That’s only you need, add players when they logged in.

If you want to search by ID, Name or whatever you can query nPlayers and find the Player.

 var playerByID = nPlayers.Where(p= p.ID==givenID).FirstOrDefault();

 var playerByName = nPlayers.Where(p= p.Name==givenName).FirstOrDefault();