C# 2010 for Programmers, Fourth Edition

8. Arrays

Objectives

In this chapter you’ll learn:

• To use arrays to store data in and retrieve data from lists and tables of values.

• To declare arrays, initialize arrays and refer to individual elements of arrays.

• To use the foreach statement to iterate through arrays.

• To use implicitly typed local variables.

• To pass arrays to methods.

• To declare and manipulate multidimensional arrays.

Begin at the beginning, ... and go on till you come to the end: then stop.

—Lewis Carroll

Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book.

—Isaiah 30:8

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

—Confucius

Outline

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Arrays

8.3 Declaring and Creating Arrays

8.4 Examples Using Arrays

8.5 Case Study: Card Shuffling ...