Question

I have a stored proc that returns 4 rows in a table. Each row corresponds to a day a person is staying at a hotel, so when I bind a repeater to it, 4 rows show up. Two of the rows are the same room and the other two are the same room. I want to display credit card information, but not for each individual room, only for every set of rooms that is the same, so it would look something like this:

12/7/2011 Room 1

12/8/2011 Room 1

Credit Card Info

12/7/2011 Room 2

12/8/2011 Room 2

Credit Card Info

I don’t want to combine Room information and credit information into a one row each. How can I get this to format the way I want it to?

Currently I am displaying Room Information in an ItemTemplate and inside the ItemTemplate is a tr and td’s.

Answer 1

//Create either a HashTable() 
//or a Dictionary<int, string[]> I would personally use a Dictionary<> 

//create an instance of what ever collection you want to use or array
  //List<string>
  //Dictionary<int, string[]>() using the room number as the key
  // you would add the values to either the List<> or a String[] array or a Dictionary
keey in mind that if you want to create a dynamic string[] array and you do not know how many elements you are going to add just use a List<> or Dictionary<int,string>
and you can always convert that object using .ToArray 
so for example 


List<string> lstRoomList = new List<string>();
string[] arrayRoom = {};
if you have a DataReader for example and you are doing something like 
while (yourdataReader.Read())
{
  // here you can decide how you are going to work with the data you 
  lstRoomList.Add(datareader["roomnubmer"] + " " + datareader[CreditCarInfo];
}
at the end you could assign the values of that list to a dynamic array
arrayRoom = kstRoomList.ToArray(); I would really need to see what you are using and how you are returning the StoredProc results..