Array with string and double for sorting

[profitsareking]

I am new at NT programming, so this is fairly basic.
What I want to do is read into the array five different moving averages, etc. and their different types. Example 20 SMA, LinReg 9 and so on. This requires 2D array which holds the string "Type" and double "Value". I then want to sort them from the lowest to highest for further processing. My question is what is the easiest way to do this? Could I use the List method or would I need to use the Sort().

[NinjaTrader_Joydeep]

Hello profitsareking,
Welcome to the forum and I am happy to assist you.

You can also use a sortedlist to do it. Please refer to the below link to know more about it

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.collections.sortedlist.aspx

[koganam]

I am new at NT programming, so this is fairly basic.
What I want to do is read into the array five different moving averages, etc. and their different types. Example 20 SMA, LinReg 9 and so on. This requires 2D array which holds the string "Type" and double "Value". I then want to sort them from the lowest to highest for further processing. My question is what is the easiest way to do this? Could I use the List method or would I need to use the Sort().

Use a SortedDictionary.

ref: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/f7fta44c.aspx

[profitsareking]

Hi and thanks to both NinjaTrader_Joydeep and koganam.
I decided to use SortedList since SortedDisctionary requires all unique keys else throws an exception. Since, in a rare case, two moving averages could have the same value when crossing, this would require exception handling which complicates things.

I decided to use the sample at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cxb97few.aspx

I am getting compile error:

The type or namespace name 'SortedList' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

Can you give me quick heads up what is that about? Many thanks

[NinjaTrader_Joydeep]

Hello profitsareking,
Please make sure you are using the below declaration if you decide to use any generic collection.

using System.Collections.Generic;

[profitsareking]

I still get the same error and in addition I get:

Using the generic type 'System.Collections.Generic.SortedList<TKey,TValue >' requires '2' type arguments

[NinjaTrader_Joydeep]

Hello profitsa,reking
To assist you further can you please send a toy NinjaScript code* replicating the behavior to support[AT]ninjatrader[DOT]com

Please append Attn:Joydeep in the subject line of the email and give a reference of this thread in the body of the email.

I look forward to assisting you further.

*The "toy" just means something that is a stripped down version that isn't necessarily the whole logic. It makes things easier to rout out.