delete an element from an array C#

[Brian Underhill via DotNetMonster.com]

I am trying to delete an element from an array. I have an array of 52
elements and I want to search for an element and delete it. Therefore,
making it an array of 51 elements.

is it just

delete MyArray[i];
any help would be great....thanks
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[Mattias Sjögren]

I am trying to delete an element from an array. I have an array of 52
elements and I want to search for an element and delete it. Therefore,
making it an array of 51 elements.

Arrays have a fixed size you set when you allocate them so you canät
do that. You may want to use an ArrayList instead.
Mattias

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[Cowboy \(Gregory A. Beamer\)]

Change to an ArrayList or similar (SortedList) as arrays are initialized to
a specific size and do not automagically resize because you are tired of one
item.

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"Brian Underhill via DotNetMonster.com" <u15083@uwe> wrote in message
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I am trying to delete an element from an array. I have an array of 52
elements and I want to search for an element and delete it. Therefore,
making it an array of 51 elements.

is it just

delete MyArray[i];
any help would be great....thanks
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[OMichael]

"Brian Underhill via DotNetMonster.com" wrote:

I am trying to delete an element from an array. I have an array of 52
elements and I want to search for an element and delete it. Therefore,
making it an array of 51 elements.

is it just

delete MyArray[i];
any help would be great....thanks

Once you get onto the latest release containing generics, there is a static
method on the Array class called Resize---

int[] myArray = new int[10];

// populate it

int[] myShorterArray = Array.Resize<int>(9);

// you have just truncated the array by one element.

Now, if you read carefully, all this is really doing is re-allocating the
array and copying the appropriate elements into the new array. this is the
same manual process you could have done pre-generics, but this makes it so
much cleaner.

Not to disagree with the other replies- this is just one more way of looking
at it.