What is the best way to keep a list of items that is sortable and searchable? I want to have a list of medication-indications that I want to keep in order like this:
Medication --------- Indication
lisinopril --------- hypertension
amlodipine besylate --------- hypertension
amlodipine besylate --------- coronary artery disease (cad)
carvedilol --------- hypertension
ciprofloxacin --------- skin and skin structure infections
ciprofloxacin --------- bone and joint infections
No matter what order, amlodipine besylate HAS to match hypertension. I need to be able to sort alphabetically. Then I need to be able to get subsets. So I need to be able to pull the indications for say ciprofloxacin and lisinopril and then search to see if hypertension is in that resulting list.
How can I do this? I have it currently as two separate hash sets.
Try using TreeMap
- stores key-value pairs in sorted(ascending) order.
- You can access the value using key
- Key can be 'Medication'
- Value can be 'Indication'