Luatable equivalent in C#? -

i've been looking way make table thing in c# (3.5), still have come empty. want this

    var myclassvar = new myclass();     myclassvar["hello"]["world"] = "hello world";     myclassvar["hello"][0] = "swapped";     myclassvar[0][0] = "test";     myclassvar["hello"]["to"]["the"]["world"] = "again";     myclassvar[0][1][0][0] = "same above sorta"; 

i'm trying create type of class parse file format i've created storing data. know of this?

public class luatable {     private dictionary<object, dynamic> properties = new dictionary<object, dynamic>();     public dynamic this[object property]     {                 {             if (properties.containskey(property))                 return properties[property];             luatable table = new luatable();             properties.add(property, table);             return table;         }         set         {             if (!properties.containskey(property))                 properties.add(property, value);             else                 properties[property] = value;         }     } } 

you can use how want to:

var myclassvar = new luatable(); myclassvar["hello"]["world"] = "hello world"; myclassvar["hello"][0] = "swapped"; myclassvar[0][0] = "test"; myclassvar["hello"]["to"]["the"]["world"] = "again"; myclassvar[0][1][0][0] = "same above sorta";  string s1 = myclassvar["hello"]["world"]; // = "hello world" string s2 = myclassvar["hello"][0]; // = "swapped" string s3 = myclassvar[0][0]; // = "test" string s4 = myclassvar["hello"]["to"]["the"]["world"]; // = "again" string s5 = myclassvar[0][1][0][0]; // = "same above sorta" 

edit: realized c# 3.5 doesn't have dynamic, here's version uses generics. hope fine (since have have of child properties of table of same type (in case, string):

public class luatable<t> t : class {     private bool isvalue;     private t value = null;     private dictionary<object, luatable<t>> properties = new dictionary<object, luatable<t>>();      public static implicit operator luatable<t>(t val)     {         if (val luatable<t>)             return (luatable<t>)val;         return new luatable<t>() { isvalue = true, value = val };     }     public static implicit operator t(luatable<t> table)     {         if (table.isvalue)             return table.value;         return table;     }      public luatable<t> this[object property]     {                 {             if (isvalue)                 return null;              if (properties.containskey(property))                 return properties[property];             luatable<t> table = new luatable<t>();             properties.add(property, table);             return table;         }         set         {             if (!properties.containskey(property))                 properties.add(property, value);             else                 properties[property] = value;         }     } } 

to use it, it's same above. change first line:

var myclassvar = new luatable<string>();