Best way to store these data?

Question

I have a system of toggles in my program. A user can define a toggle to contain accepted and unaccepted tags. I was trying to think of an efficient way to store those. So far the best I came up with is a three dimensional array, so I could do:

toggles[0,0,0] = "allowedtag1";
toggles[0,0,1] = "allowedtag2";
toggles[0,1,0] = "badtag1";
toggles[0,1,1] = "badtag2";

What would be the best way to store that, or is that really the way to go? Thanks :)

Sam Hobbs · Answer

I think your requirements are not described clearly enough. In other words I do not know what you need to do. If I understand then the question becomes what do you need to optimize? Your time the processor's time or the amount of memory used to store the data? The solution likely varies depending on that criteria.

narasimman g · Answer

you can use HashTable (Try if it suits you) String ToggleSrtring = value1.tostring ++Value2.tostring()++Value3.tosting(); //string wil be 000 store all possible contents in Hashtable like HashTable hshToggle = new HashTable() hsgToggle.Add(000 AllowedTag1); When you retreive use the below coding string Result = hshToggle[ToggleSrtring].ToString();

Mahesh Chand · Answer

Let me get this straight. You have 4 different toggle options and one of them is selected. You can simply create a Structure with four boolean properties and one of them is true at one time. Setting one true sets false the rest.