Alternative to if, else if

Question

I have a lot of if, else if statements and I know there has to be a better way to do this but even after searching stackoverflow I\'m unsure of how to do so in my particular cas

Answer 1

What you want is a Dictionary:

Dictionary mapping = new Dictionary();
mapping["SWGAS.COM"] = "Southwest Gas";
mapping["foo"] = "bar";
... as many as you need, maybe read from a file ...

Then just:

return mapping[inputString];

Done.