Learning C# 7 By Developing Games with Unity 2017 - Third Edition

Declaring an array

To declare a C# array, you must first say what type of data will be stored in the array. As you can see in the preceding example, we are storing strings of characters. After the type, we have an open square bracket and then immediately a closed square bracket, [ ]. This will make the variable an actual array. We also need to declare the size of the array. It simply means how many places are there in our variable to be accessed. The minimum code required to declare a variable looks similar to this:

public string[] myArrayName = new string[4]; 

The array size is set during assignment. As you have learned before, all code after the variable declaration and the equal sign is an assignment. To assign empty values to all places ...