Which was the best way to store the data that was coming from excel
<p>Hi all i have written a code to read the excel data from an excel, but i don't know which was the best way to store the data my data in excel is as follows</p>

<pre><code>               2000-01       2001-02     2002-03    2003-04   2004-05

Some text        65%           52%          51.3%      *        6.1%
Some text        65%           52%          51.3%      *        6.1%
Some text        65%           52%          51.3%      *        6.1%
Some text        65%           52%          51.3%      *        6.1%
Some text        65%           52%          51.3%      *        6.1%
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<p>The data seems to be as this in my excel file i know how to retrieve the data but i was looking for the best method to store the data can any one help me </p>

<p>AT present i am storing data in to <code>List&lt;string&gt;</code> as follows</p>

<pre><code>Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Range range = worksheet.get_Range("A11", "G21");
System.Array myvalues = (System.Array)range.Cells.Value2;
List&lt;string&gt; newList = AnyListToStrList(myvalues);
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<p>But i am not sure that it was the right method so i am looking for the better one..</p>
