Jagged arrays

[Femi]

Hello,

Can anyone help? I get the error message below:

Array size cannot be specified in a variable declaration (try initializing with a 'new' expression)

Code snippet:

Class Test{

string [][] MyString = new string [3][];
MyString[0] = new string[5];
}

Thanks

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

Re: Jagged arrays

Femi wrote:

Can anyone help? I get the error message below:
>
Array size cannot be specified in a variable declaration (try
initializing with a 'new' expression)
>
Code snippet:
>
Class Test{
>
string [][] MyString = new string [3][];
MyString[0] = new string[5];
}

Those two lines world work inside a method but not outside.

Arne

[Marc Gravell]

Re: Jagged arrays

Further to Arne's reply, you could also use array-initializer syntax
(below), but it seems unlikely that you would generally know these
numbers at compile-time; as such, the constructor is a good place to
consider.

string[][] MyString = { new string[5], new string[2], new
string[10] };

(note: only verified on C#3; my 2.0 machine is unavailable)

Marc