Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Array of Tuples

Q: How would use tuples in C# 4.0 to create an array of tuples containing various types of data (i.e. Employee Name, Employee ID#)?

A: Listed below is a sample code snippet to implement an array of tuples.

//Array of Tuples (i.e. EmpName, EmpIDNum)
Tuple[] EmpRecs =
{
Tuple.Create("Sam Nasr", 891),
Tuple.Create("Jim Smith", 358),
Tuple.Create("Lisa Jones", 962)
};

string FirstEmpName = EmpRecs[0].Item1;

string SecondEmpName = EmpRecs[1].Item1;
int SecondEmpIDNum = EmpRecs[1].Item2;


More information can be found at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd413854(VS.95).aspx

3 comments:

  1. I love tuples but the python syntax is so much simpler and easier than C#.

    mytuples = [
    ('Sam Nasr', 891),
    ('Jim Smith', 358),
    ('Lisa Jones', 962)
    ]

    print mytuples[0][0]
    print mytuples[1][0]
    print mytuples[1][1]

    output:
    Sam Nasr
    Jim Smith
    358

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