Question on Asp.Net DataTable

Question

I have a DataTable which contains 3 columns

 

id name val 

1  a        2

2  b        3

3  c        4

4  d       12

5  e       14

 

there are five variables string a,string b,string c,string d,string e.I want to assign a value,from name column a value which is 2 to variable a,similary b value to variable b.I have done it this way

 

a = dt.Rows[0]["val"]

b = dt.Rows[1]["val"]

c = dt.Rows[2]["val"]

d = dt.Rows[3]["val"]

e = dt.Rows[4]["val"] 

 

this is assigning values,but the way is going wrong.Please do let me know the other way i am stuck on this.

 

Regards,

Aniket Narvankar