Struct Arrays

[Stephen_Mc]

Hi, I have created a structure as follows public struct symbol { char szKeyword; int dflt; bool fPassDflt; int idx; } symbol SYM; I would like to create an array of the structure and write the variables in. I have found a sample in the help for a normal array as follows: int[,] myArray = new int[,] {{1,2}, {3,4}, {5,6}, {7,8}}; What I want to do is pass the values of the structure but I can't get this to work. Any suggestions? Thanks Stephen

[Guffa]

Make a constructor in the struct. I have given the member variables some more descriptive names, but as I couldn't figure your variable names out, I may be way off what you intended. ;) I also made the member variables private and made read-only properties for them, so that the structure is immutable.

public struct Symbol {

private char keyword;
private int defibrilator;
private bool passDefibrilator;
private int index;

public symbol( char keyword, int defibrilator, bool passDefibrilator, int index) {
this.keyword = keyword;
this.defibrilator = defibrilator;
this.passDefibrilator = passDefibrilator;
this.index = index;
}

public char Keyword { get { return this.keyword; } }
public int Defibrilator { get { return this.defibrilator; } }
public bool PassDefibrilator { get { return this.passDefibrilator; } }
public int Index { get { return this.index; } }

}

As you have a constructor, you can easily create an array of structures:

Symbol[] symbols = new Symbol[] {
new Symbol('a', 42, true, 1),
new Symbol('b', 8, false, 5),
new Symbol('c', 199866, false, 377378423),
};

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[Stephen_Mc]

Thanks so much.