Extracting single dimensional array out of two dimensional array

Mukesh

Hi,
I am using framework 2.0. I am writing a foreach loop that will
extract single dimensional arrays out of double dimensional array. I
am trying writing something like this.

string [,] strDetails
foreach(string[] str in strDetails)
{
//Code comes here
}

I have studied that it is not possible to do like this. The maximum
we can do is extracting individual values in the array.
Any comments? Opinions? Solutions?
Thanks
Chakravarti Mukesh

Oct 24 '07 #1

Kalpesh

Having a jagged array can help in this.
string[][] strDetails

I think, foreach (string[]... ) should work in such a case.

On Oct 24, 2:33 pm, Mukesh <cmukes...@gmail.comwrote:

Hi,
I am using framework 2.0. I am writing a foreach loop that will
extract single dimensional arrays out of double dimensional array. I
am trying writing something like this.

string [,] strDetails
foreach(string[] str in strDetails)
{
//Code comes here

}

I have studied that it is not possible to do like this. The maximum
we can do is extracting individual values in the array.
Any comments? Opinions? Solutions?
Thanks
Chakravarti Mukesh

Oct 24 '07 #2

Jon Skeet [C# MVP]

Mukesh <cm*******@gmail.comwrote:

I am using framework 2.0. I am writing a foreach loop that will
extract single dimensional arrays out of double dimensional array. I
am trying writing something like this.

string [,] strDetails
foreach(string[] str in strDetails)
{
//Code comes here
}

I have studied that it is not possible to do like this. The maximum
we can do is extracting individual values in the array.
Any comments? Opinions? Solutions?

That's correct.

If you can produce a string[][] (an array of string arrays) instead,
it's a lot easier.

How much of what you want to do is fixed? Do you definitely need a
string[], or just (for example) an IEnumerable<string>?

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Oct 24 '07 #3

=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?=

Mukesh wrote:

I am using framework 2.0. I am writing a foreach loop that will
extract single dimensional arrays out of double dimensional array. I
am trying writing something like this.

string [,] strDetails
foreach(string[] str in strDetails)
{
//Code comes here
}

I have studied that it is not possible to do like this. The maximum
we can do is extracting individual values in the array.
Any comments? Opinions? Solutions?

For some options:

using System;

namespace E
{
public class Program
{
public static void Main(string[] args)
{
int[,] a = new int[3,3];
for(int i = 0; i < 3; i++)
{
for(int j = 0; j < 3; j++)
{
a[i,j] = 3*i+j+1;
}
}
int[] a1 = new int[3];
Buffer.BlockCopy(a, 3*sizeof(int), a1, 0, 3*sizeof(int));
Console.WriteLine(a1[0] + " " + a1[1] + " " + a1[2]);
int[][] b = new int[3][];
for(int i = 0; i < 3; i++)
{
b[i] = new int[3];
for(int j = 0; j < 3; j++)
{
b[i][j] = 3*i+j+1;
}
}
int[] b1 = b[1];
Console.WriteLine(b1[0] + " " + b1[1] + " " + b1[2]);
Console.ReadKey();
}
}
}

Arne

Oct 24 '07 #4

Peter Duniho

Mukesh wrote:

[...]
string [,] strDetails
foreach(string[] str in strDetails)
{
//Code comes here
}

I have studied that it is not possible to do like this. The maximum
we can do is extracting individual values in the array.

Well "strDetails" isn't an array of arrays; it's a single
two-dimensional array. So that's why you can't enumerate the "string[]"
instances in the "strDetails" array. There aren't any.

That said, there's nothing to stop you from iterating over a single
dimension of the two-dimensional array, and then within that iterating
over the other dimension for the purpose of building a new
single-dimensional array of strings.

Something like this:

string[,] strDetails;

for (int i = 0; i < strDetails.GetLength(0); i++)
{
string[] str = new string[strDetails.GetLength(1)];

for (int j = 0; j < str.Length; j++)
{
str[j] = strDetails[i, j];
}

// do something with str here
}

Pete

Oct 24 '07 #5

=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?=

Arne Vajhøj wrote:

Mukesh wrote:

>I am using framework 2.0. I am writing a foreach loop that will
extract single dimensional arrays out of double dimensional array. I
am trying writing something like this.

string [,] strDetails
foreach(string[] str in strDetails)
{
//Code comes here
}

I have studied that it is not possible to do like this. The maximum
we can do is extracting individual values in the array.
Any comments? Opinions? Solutions?

For some options:
...

Note that the block copy does not work for strings and therfore
is not applicable to your problem.

Arne

Oct 24 '07 #6