[Solved] to many IF how to make quicker search c# [closed]

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Often if you have a unique list of items that you want to associate with some other item, a Dictionary is a good solution. Each item in a dictionary is called a KeyValuePair, and consists of two parts: a unique key, which in this case would be the name, and a value associated with that key, which in this case is an int.

For your example, it would look something like:

// The part in parenthesis specifies that the keys will be 
// case-insensitive when doing comparisons, so you can search 
// for "john", "John", or "JOHN", and get the same value back
private static  Dictionary<string, int> nameValues = 
    new Dictionary<string, int>(StringComparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase)
{
    {"John", 1},
    {"Jimmy", 2},
    {"Mark", 3}
};

And a method for retrieving the int value for a name might look like:

private static int GetIntForName(string name)
{
    var valueIfNotFound = -1;
    return nameValues.ContainsKey(name) ? nameValues[name] : valueIfNotFound;
}

solved to many IF how to make quicker search c# [closed]