What is the easiest way to handle associative array in c#?

c# associative-array

Michael · Apr 20, 2012 · Viewed 73.8k times · Source

I do not have a lot of experience with C#, yet I am used of working with associative arrays in PHP.

I see that in C# the List class and the Array are available, but I would like to associate some string keys.

What is the easiest way to handle this?

Thx!

Answer

Use the Dictionary class. It should do what you need. Reference is here.

So you can do something like this:

IDictionary<string, int> dict = new Dictionary<string, int>();
dict["red"] = 10;
dict["blue"] = 20;