Hello.
I need some help understanding what goes on when an array is copied. I
create 2 arrays and copy one to the other:
int[] pins = {9, 3, 7, 2};
int[] copy = new int[pins.Length];
for (int i = 0; i != copy.Length; i++)
{
copy[i] = pins[i];
}
As I understand it, the two arrays are pointing to the same data in memory
because this is a shallow copy. However, if I change one of the elements of
the "pins" array and then echo the values of each array to the screen they
are not the same. For example:
pins[0] = 0;
for (int i = 0; i != pins.Length; i++)
{
Console.WriteLi ne(pins[i]);
}
for (int i = 0; i != copy.Length; i++)
{
Console.WriteLi ne(copy[i]);
}
Is the 0th reference of "pins" now pointing to another INT in memory? If
so, why would a deep copy ever be valuable since the reference is changed
whenever the array is altered? Or am I just getting this all wrong?
Thanks for your help,
Richard
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int is an integral data types therefore copy and pass as value and not by reference. When you did your loop that copied pins[] to copy[] you were actually doing a deep copy of the arrays. Each array after this point was pointing to their own copy of the integers. Changing one would not change the other.
To accomplish a shallow copy of int arrays simply assign copy[] to pins[]:
int[] pins = {9, 3, 7, 2};
int[] copy = null;
copy = pins; // shallow copy... copy is now referencing the same array object as pins
pins[0] = 0; // copy[0] now also = 0
--
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Ritch Consulting, Inc.
"Richard Forester" wrote: Hello.
I need some help understanding what goes on when an array is copied. I create 2 arrays and copy one to the other:
int[] pins = {9, 3, 7, 2}; int[] copy = new int[pins.Length];
for (int i = 0; i != copy.Length; i++)
{
copy[i] = pins[i];
}
As I understand it, the two arrays are pointing to the same data in memory because this is a shallow copy. However, if I change one of the elements of the "pins" array and then echo the values of each array to the screen they are not the same. For example:
pins[0] = 0;
for (int i = 0; i != pins.Length; i++)
{
Console.WriteLi ne(pins[i]);
}
for (int i = 0; i != copy.Length; i++)
{
Console.WriteLi ne(copy[i]);
}
Is the 0th reference of "pins" now pointing to another INT in memory? If so, why would a deep copy ever be valuable since the reference is changed whenever the array is altered? Or am I just getting this all wrong?
Thanks for your help, Richard
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Hi,
what you are doing is copying the values individually.
You have created a new int array (new int[pins.Length]) and copy the values
from pins into the copy array, essentially a deep copy.
If you want a shallow copy you'd just create a new int[] and assign it the
pins array, eg.
int[] copy2 = pins;
--
Yours sincerely,
Jacob Munk-Stander | http://jacob.munk-stander.dk
"Richard Forester" <richard_(no-spam)fo******@m sn.com> wrote in message
news:41******** **@127.0.0.1... Hello.
I need some help understanding what goes on when an array is copied. I create 2 arrays and copy one to the other:
int[] pins = {9, 3, 7, 2}; int[] copy = new int[pins.Length];
for (int i = 0; i != copy.Length; i++)
{
copy[i] = pins[i];
}
As I understand it, the two arrays are pointing to the same data in memory because this is a shallow copy. However, if I change one of the elements
of the "pins" array and then echo the values of each array to the screen they are not the same. For example:
pins[0] = 0;
for (int i = 0; i != pins.Length; i++)
{
Console.WriteLi ne(pins[i]);
}
for (int i = 0; i != copy.Length; i++)
{
Console.WriteLi ne(copy[i]);
}
Is the 0th reference of "pins" now pointing to another INT in memory? If so, why would a deep copy ever be valuable since the reference is changed whenever the array is altered? Or am I just getting this all wrong?
Thanks for your help, Richard
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Richard,
There are two things coming into play here:
1. You're using a value type, which will get copied.
2. You're changing the entire value, not operating on a member of the
"copied" instance.
You'll see the result you expected if you use a reference type and change a
property of one of the pins after making the copy.
HTH,
Nicole
"Richard Forester" <richard_(no-spam)fo******@m sn.com> wrote in message
news:41******** **@127.0.0.1... Hello.
I need some help understanding what goes on when an array is copied. I create 2 arrays and copy one to the other:
int[] pins = {9, 3, 7, 2}; int[] copy = new int[pins.Length];
for (int i = 0; i != copy.Length; i++)
{
copy[i] = pins[i];
}
As I understand it, the two arrays are pointing to the same data in memory because this is a shallow copy. However, if I change one of the elements of the "pins" array and then echo the values of each array to the screen they are not the same. For example:
pins[0] = 0;
for (int i = 0; i != pins.Length; i++)
{
Console.WriteLi ne(pins[i]);
}
for (int i = 0; i != copy.Length; i++)
{
Console.WriteLi ne(copy[i]);
}
Is the 0th reference of "pins" now pointing to another INT in memory? If so, why would a deep copy ever be valuable since the reference is changed whenever the array is altered? Or am I just getting this all wrong?
Thanks for your help, Richard
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Thanks so much for your help. This was driving me crazy.
As a follow up, can you tell me if the same holds true if this were an array
of objects instead of ints?
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message news:93******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com... int is an integral data types therefore copy and pass as value and not by
reference. When you did your loop that copied pins[] to copy[] you were
actually doing a deep copy of the arrays. Each array after this point was
pointing to their own copy of the integers. Changing one would not change
the other. To accomplish a shallow copy of int arrays simply assign copy[] to pins[]:
int[] pins = {9, 3, 7, 2}; int[] copy = null;
copy = pins; // shallow copy... copy is now referencing the same array
object as pins pins[0] = 0; // copy[0] now also = 0
-- C Addison Ritchie, MCSD Ritch Consulting, Inc.
"Richard Forester" wrote:
Hello.
I need some help understanding what goes on when an array is copied. I create 2 arrays and copy one to the other:
int[] pins = {9, 3, 7, 2}; int[] copy = new int[pins.Length];
for (int i = 0; i != copy.Length; i++)
{
copy[i] = pins[i];
}
As I understand it, the two arrays are pointing to the same data in
memory because this is a shallow copy. However, if I change one of the
elements of the "pins" array and then echo the values of each array to the screen
they are not the same. For example:
pins[0] = 0;
for (int i = 0; i != pins.Length; i++)
{
Console.WriteLi ne(pins[i]);
}
for (int i = 0; i != copy.Length; i++)
{
Console.WriteLi ne(copy[i]);
}
Is the 0th reference of "pins" now pointing to another INT in memory?
If so, why would a deep copy ever be valuable since the reference is
changed whenever the array is altered? Or am I just getting this all wrong?
Thanks for your help, Richard
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<"Richard Forester" <richard_(no-spam)fo******@m sn.com>> wrote: I need some help understanding what goes on when an array is copied. I create 2 arrays and copy one to the other:
int[] pins = {9, 3, 7, 2}; int[] copy = new int[pins.Length];
for (int i = 0; i != copy.Length; i++)
{ copy[i] = pins[i]; }
As I understand it, the two arrays are pointing to the same data in memory because this is a shallow copy.
No, they're not. When an array is copied in the manner of the above,
the array itself has separate memory, but the value of each element in
the new array is the same as the value of each element in the old
array. When the array is an array of reference types, that means it's
only the reference which is copied - a copy of each object isn't
created.
For example, if instead of being an array of ints your array had been
an array of StringBuilders, and you'd appended some text to the
StringBuilder referred to by element 0 in the old array, you'd have
seen that via element 0 in the new array too, as they'd both still be
references to the same object.
You may find that http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/csharp/parameters.html
helps a bit on this.
--
Jon Skeet - <sk***@pobox.co m> http://www.pobox.com/~skeet
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Many thanks to everyone who replied. I definitely understand how these work
now. The reason why I got so confused was a misleading sentence in the book
I am reading:
"No matter how you decide to copy an array, it's very important to realize
that an array copy is a shallow copy and not a deep copy."
:-(
Richard
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news:41******** **@127.0.0.1... Hello.
I need some help understanding what goes on when an array is copied. I create 2 arrays and copy one to the other:
int[] pins = {9, 3, 7, 2}; int[] copy = new int[pins.Length];
for (int i = 0; i != copy.Length; i++)
{
copy[i] = pins[i];
}
As I understand it, the two arrays are pointing to the same data in memory because this is a shallow copy. However, if I change one of the elements
of the "pins" array and then echo the values of each array to the screen they are not the same. For example:
pins[0] = 0;
for (int i = 0; i != pins.Length; i++)
{
Console.WriteLi ne(pins[i]);
}
for (int i = 0; i != copy.Length; i++)
{
Console.WriteLi ne(copy[i]);
}
Is the 0th reference of "pins" now pointing to another INT in memory? If so, why would a deep copy ever be valuable since the reference is changed whenever the array is altered? Or am I just getting this all wrong?
Thanks for your help, Richard
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<"Richard Forester" <richard_(no-spam)fo******@m sn.com>> wrote: Many thanks to everyone who replied. I definitely understand how these work now. The reason why I got so confused was a misleading sentence in the book I am reading:
"No matter how you decide to copy an array, it's very important to realize that an array copy is a shallow copy and not a deep copy."
And that's correct - it's a shallow copy in that it just copies the
values in the array, not the objects that those values might refer to.
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