array getters and setters

thanx Alan

That sounds good

I've just thought of another way to have a 'named' array which would be to index it using an enum in which you define constants having values from 0 to 49.

So, if Fred corresponded to a value of 7 in your array then,as an alternative to using:

    myArray[7]

you could use:

    myArray[(int)MyEnum.Fred]

It's a nuisance having to cast the enum value to int but there doesn't seem to be a way around this.

The only way I can think of  to do this would be to wrap the array in a custom class with 50 read/write properties to get/set each element of the array.

However, rather than use an array it might be better to use a Hashtable. You can then define a string key for each element you add and retrieve those elements by key rather than by position.