C# find a value from an object column using a string from another column
- by Graham
I have 2 list in foreach loops..
I currently use a 'switch' statement on the m.columnname and then assign the value of that column to another var map as per below..
If m.columnname = 'DocHeading' then v.docheading is assigned to map.value..
There will always be a match on m.columnname to a column in the var v.
is there a way to get the value from the var v using the string from m.columnname?
The reason is that the users will want to add and change column names and I dont want to have to change this code all the time..
Hope this makes sense
List spreadMapping = new List();
foreach (var m in mappings)
{
foreach (var v in hvalues)
{
SpreadMappings map = new SpreadMappings();
switch (m.ColumnName)
{
case “DocHeading”:
map.ColumnX = m.ColumnX;
map.ColumnY = m.ColumnY;
map.ColumnValue = v.DocHeading;
map.ColumnName = m.ColumnName;
map.ColumnId = v.Id;
map.ColumnSheetName = sheetName; spreadMapping.Add(map);
break;
