Create an Unknown Number of Arraylists

[Andy in S. Jersey]

I would like to create an unknown number of ArrayLists, that is I don't know
that until runtime.

Of course I can do this if I knew I needed two:

ArrayList IntervalArray1 = new ArrayList();
ArrayList IntervalArray2 = new ArrayList();

but what if I don't know how many I need at build time?

Although the code below doesn't work, it expresses sorta what I would like
to do

for (int j = 0; j < onereader.Field Count; j++)
{
ArrayList IntervalArray[j] = new ArrayList();
}

Any ideas? Some code to do it would be nice.

Thx

[Arne Vajhøj]

Andy in S. Jersey wrote:

I would like to create an unknown number of ArrayLists, that is I don't know
that until runtime.

Of course I can do this if I knew I needed two:

ArrayList IntervalArray1 = new ArrayList();
ArrayList IntervalArray2 = new ArrayList();

but what if I don't know how many I need at build time?

Make an ArrayList of ArrayList's.

ArrayList IntervalArrays = new ArrayList();

and then at runtime N times:

IntervalArrays. Add(new ArrayList());

and use it as:

IntervalArrays[arrayno].Add(something) ;

and

IntervalArrays[arrayno][itemno]

Arne

[Laurent Bugnion]

Hi,

Arne Vajhøj wrote:

Andy in S. Jersey wrote:

>I would like to create an unknown number of ArrayLists, that is I
don't know that until runtime.

Of course I can do this if I knew I needed two:

ArrayList IntervalArray1 = new ArrayList();
ArrayList IntervalArray2 = new ArrayList();

but what if I don't know how many I need at build time?

Make an ArrayList of ArrayList's.

ArrayList IntervalArrays = new ArrayList();

and then at runtime N times:

IntervalArrays. Add(new ArrayList());

and use it as:

IntervalArrays[arrayno].Add(something) ;

and

IntervalArrays[arrayno][itemno]

Arne

You need to cast the content of ArrayLists before you use them, because
the content is defined as "object".

That would be:

( (ArrayList) IntervalArrays[arrayno] ).Add(something );

and

( (ArrayList) IntervalArrays[arrayno] )[itemno];

which is cumbersome to say the least. That's why you should rather use
List<if you can

List<ArrayListi nternalArrays = new List<ArrayList> ();

HTH,
Laurent
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