Searching through an ArrayList

[Darkness84]

I have an arraylist that contains objects who themselves contain multiple properties. I would like to know is there are faster way than using a for loop to search through an arraylist to find the object whose certain property matches what I am looking for. An example of what I am currently doing is listed below. for(int p = 0; p < SupplierItemDataStore.Count; p++) { if(stock.Code == ((XMLDefs.SupplierItem.SupplierItem)SupplierItemDataStore[p]).StockCode) { { //Do stuff here } } } where stock is the object that is passed in and SupplierItemDataStore contains over 31,000 items.

[Michael Sync]

I don't think that there will be more faster way. foreach(XMLDefs.SupplierItem.SupplierItem sItem in SupplierItemDataStore){ if(stock.Code = sItem.StockCode){ } } There are a lot of C# gurus in our forum.. let's see what they say..

Thanks and Regards, Michael Sync ( Blog: http://michaelsync.net)

[Guffa]

If you put the data in a HashTable with the stock code as key, you can locate the item very quickly. If you use framework 2.0 you would use a Dictionary instead of a HashTable.

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[Michael Sync]

>>If you put the data in a HashTable with the stock code as key, you can locate the item very quickly. Yeah. Great Idea. Thanks..

Thanks and Regards, Michael Sync ( Blog: http://michaelsync.net)

[Darkness84]

Thanks for your help guys. The hash table is the way I'm going to have to go as the application I'm developing is on Framework 1.1 so I can't use a Dictionary.