structure element by index

[Ahmet AKGUN]

Hi;

I have a structure like

public struct MyStr
{
string elem1;
string elem2;
string elem3;
}

I want to have referance to this elements by index.
MStr.GetElem(2) must return a refarence to elem2.

is that possible ?

[Jon Skeet]

Ahmet AKGUN <ak*********@hotmail.com> wrote:

I have a structure like

public struct MyStr
{
string elem1;
string elem2;
string elem3;
}

I want to have referance to this elements by index.
MStr.GetElem(2) must return a refarence to elem2.

is that possible ?

Not *very* easily - you'd need to use reflection, which is feasible but
doesn't perform well and isn't generally something to use without good
cause. Any reason you don't want to make it a string array internally?

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[Ahmet AKGUN]

Then I will lookup reflection api
thanks.
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Ahmet AKGUN <ak*********@hotmail.com> wrote:

unfotunately I must get referances to structer elements and their types.
I have a common function that must do this for any structure given as
parameter
independent of structure elements.

So i need these for structure, element count, element referances and element data types.

In that case I suggest you investigate reflection - but I don't know
whether reflection gives *any* guarantees about the order in which it
reports fields etc.

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