C# ASP.NET MVC Associative array in controller

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I have this problem. I have holidays for this and and last year. You can use last year's holiday in this year. So lets say for example. I have 5 days left from 2013 and 20 days for 2014. I need something like in PHP.

$holiday = array();
$holiday['2013'] = 5;
$holiday['2014'] = 20;

So is there any better way to do this in C#?

Plue · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-17 16:00:17Z

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Use a Dictionary<string,int>

Look here

answered Jan 17, 2014 at 16:00

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Habib Over a year ago

why string, both key and value are of integer type.

MattC Over a year ago

Technically the OP has Dictionary<string,int>

Habib · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-17 16:00:44Z

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I think you are looking for Dictionary. Something like following.

Dictionary<int, int> holiday = new Dictionary<int, int>();

holiday[2013] = 5;
holiday[2014] = 20;

Its better if you use int for year instead of string type like in your PHP code.

answered Jan 17, 2014 at 16:00

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MattC Over a year ago

'Better' is a bit subjective, we don't know exactly why he has got string literals in his example.

Habib Over a year ago

@MattC, better in a sense that int value could be used with DateTime constructor directly, instead of parsing. But yes you are right it depends on the OP's requirement.

MattC Over a year ago

yeah, not saying you're wrong. I agree with you but, as you said, in terms of the OP's question....

stephenbayer Over a year ago

An int could use slightly less memory than the string, but it's not like that matters anymore. We ain't developing on 256 byte Z-80 boxes anymore.

mcsilvio · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-17 16:00:30Z

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A similar - but strongly-typed - collection is a Dictionary. Have a look here.

answered Jan 17, 2014 at 16:00

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