Jagged Arrays

Jagged Arrays 

A jagged array is an array whose elements are arrays. The elements of a jagged array can be of different dimensions and sizes. A jagged array is sometimes called an "array of arrays." The following examples show how to declare, initialize, and access jagged arrays.

The following is a declaration of a single-dimensional array that has three elements, each of which is a single-dimensional array of integers:

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int[][] jaggedArray = new int[3][];

Before you can use jaggedArray, its elements must be initialized. You can initialize the elements like this:

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jaggedArray[0] = new int[5];

jaggedArray[1] = new int[4];

jaggedArray[2] = new int[2];

Each of the elements is a single-dimensional array of integers. The first element is an array of 5 integers, the second is an array of 4 integers, and the third is an array of 2 integers.

It is also possible to use initializers to fill the array elements with values, in which case you do not need the array size. For example:

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jaggedArray[0] = new int[] { 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 };

jaggedArray[1] = new int[] { 0, 2, 4, 6 };

jaggedArray[2] = new int[] { 11, 22 };

You can also initialize the array upon declaration like this:

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int[][] jaggedArray2 = new int[][]

{

new int[] {1,3,5,7,9},

new int[] {0,2,4,6},

new int[] {11,22}

};

You can use the following shorthand form. Notice that you cannot omit the new operator from the elements initialization because there is no default initialization for the elements:

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int[][] jaggedArray3 =

{

new int[] {1,3,5,7,9},

new int[] {0,2,4,6},

new int[] {11,22}

};

A jagged array is an array of arrays, and therefore its elements are reference types and are initialized to null.

You can access individual array elements like these examples:

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// Assign 77 to the second element ([1]) of the first array ([0]):

jaggedArray3[0][1] = 77;

// Assign 88 to the second element ([1]) of the third array ([2]):

jaggedArray3[2][1] = 88;

It is possible to mix jagged and multidimensional arrays. The following is a declaration and initialization of a single-dimensional jagged array that contains two-dimensional array elements of different sizes:

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int[][,] jaggedArray4 = new int[3][,]

{

new int[,] { {1,3}, {5,7} },

new int[,] { {0,2}, {4,6}, {8,10} },

new int[,] { {11,22}, {99,88}, {0,9} }

};

You can access individual elements as shown in this example, which displays the value of the element [1,0] of the first array (value 5):

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System.Console.Write("{0}", jaggedArray4[0][1, 0]);

The method Length returns the number of arrays contained in the jagged array. For example, assuming you have declared the previous array, this line:

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System.Console.WriteLine(jaggedArray4.Length);

will return a value of 3.

Kaynak: msdn2.microsoft.com
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