Array that can be accessed using array['Name'] in C#

Question

Can you do

array[\'Name\'];

In C#

Rather than:

array[0];

I know you can do that in PHP but is there a

Answer 1

it's called a Dictionary in C#. Using generics you can actually index by any type. Like so:

Dictionary dictionary = new Dictionary();
Person myPerson = new Person(); 
dictionary[myPerson] = "Some String";
...
string someString = dictionary[myPerson];
Console.WriteLine(someString);

This obviously prints, "Some String" to the console.

This is an example of the flexibility of the dictionary. You can do it with a string as an index too, like you asked for.