I have a List of strings where each item is a free text describing a skill, so looks kinda like this:
List<string> list = new List<string> {"very good right now", "pretty good",
"convinced me that is good", "pretty medium", "just medium" .....}
And I want to keep a user score for these free texts. So for now, I use conditions:
foreach (var item in list)
{
if (item.Contains("good"))
{
score += 2.5;
Console.WriteLine("good skill, score+= 2.5, is now {0}", score);
}
else if (item.Contains(low"))
{
score += 1.0;
Console.WriteLine("low skill, score+= 1.0, is now {0}", score);
}
}
Suppose In the furure I want to use a dictionary for the score mapping, such as:
Dictionary<string, double> dic = new Dictionary<string, double>
{ { "good", 2.5 }, { "low", 1.0 }};
What would be a good way to cross between the dictionary values and the string list? The way I see it now is do a nested loop:
foreach (var item in list)
{
foreach (var key in dic.Keys)
if (item.Contains(key))
score += dic[key];
}
But I'm sure there are better ways. Better being faster, or more pleasant to the eye (LINQ) at the very least.
Thanks.