I'm looking to store some customer data in memory, and I figure the best way to do that would be to use an array of records. I'm not sure if that's what its called in C#, but basically I would be able to call Customer(i).Name
and have the customers name returned as a string. In turing, its done like this:
type customers :
record
ID : string
Name, Address, Phone, Cell, Email : string
//Etc...
end record
I've searched, but I can't seem to find an equivalent for C#. Could someone point me in the right direction?
Thanks! :)
Okay, well that would be defined in a class
in C#, so it might look like this:
public class Customer
{
public string ID { get; set; }
public string Name { get; set; }
public string Address { get; set; }
public string Phone { get; set; }
public string Cell { get; set; }
public string Email { get; set; }
}
Then you could have a List<T>
of those:
var customers = new List<Customer>();
customers.Add(new Customer
{
ID = "Some value",
Name = "Some value",
...
});
and then you could access those by index if you wanted:
var name = customers[i].Name;
UPDATE: as stated by psibernetic
, the Record
class in F# provides field level equality out of the gate rather than referential equality. This is a very important distinction. To get that same equality operation in C# you'd need to make this class
a struct
and then produce the operators necessary for equality; a great example is found as an answer on this question What needs to be overridden in a struct to ensure equality operates properly?.
A class or a struct would work here.
class Customer
{
string Name
{
get;
set;
}
string Email
{
get;
set;
}
}
Customer[] customers = new Customer[50];
//after initializing the array elements, you could do
//assuming a for loop with i as index
Customer currentCustomer = customers[i];
currentCustomer.Name = "This";
It appears that the "type" you are looking for is actually a Class.
class Customer {
string id, name, phone, cell, email;
}
List<Customer> customerList = new List<Customer>();
Check this link for more detail on classes... you may want to do a bit of research, reading and learning :-)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/x9afc042.aspx
Assuming you have a class which models your customers, you can simply use a List of customers.
var c = new List<Customers>()
string name = c[i].Name