C# - initializing an array within a structure?

[Doug C via .NET 247]

Using C#...
I am pulling shared memory in to my app that is in the form of apredefined structure. I have arrays in 2 sub-structures. Onearray is an array of another predefined structure, and the otheris simply an array of ushort's.
Such as:

public struct predefinedStruc t {
public ushort a;
public ushort b;
}

public struct struct1 {
public int blah1;
public int blah2;
public predefinedStruc t [] ARRAY1; // <-- size = 6
}

public struct struct2 {
public ushort blah1;
public ushort blah2;
public ushort [] ARRAY2; // <-- size = 32
}

...

for my pointer to this structure in memory to match thispredefined structure in my code, I need the size of my structurein my code to match the size of the structure in memory. Sotherefore I need to initialize my arrays. But I can't seem toinit them in the struct.

How can I initialize my two arrays, ARRAY1, and ARRAY2, in thiscase? The size of each array is:
ARRAY1 = 6 elements
ARRAY2 = 32 elements


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[Eric Marvets]

Re: C# - initializing an array within a structure?

You can do it one of 2 ways, make it a class or provide a parameterized
constructor. I know the length is predefined, but can you just accept the
length anyway?

public struct struct1 {
public int blah1;
public int blah2;
public predefinedStruc t [] ARRAY1; // <-- size = 6

public struct1(int iSize)
{
ARRAY1 = predefinedStruc t[iSize];
}
}

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