array.Rank doesn't seem to work with string arrays ????

[Jeff Fischman]

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;

namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
string[] strings = {"a","bc","def",null};
Console.WriteLine("strings.Rank = {0}", strings.Rank);
}
}
}


this prints out strings.rank = 1 (instead of 4)

let me know if I am doing something wrong

 

[Rudy Velthuis]

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;

namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
string[] strings = {"a","bc","def",null};
Console.WriteLine("strings.Rank = {0}", strings.Rank);
}
}
}


this prints out strings.rank = 1 (instead of 4)

1 is perfectly correct. This is a one-dimensional array, so Rank
returns 1. Are you looking for the length of the array, perhaps? Then
it should return 5, not 4.

 

[Rudy Velthuis]

let me know if I am doing something wrong

ms-help://MS.NETFramework.v20.en/cpref2/html/P_System_Array_Rank.htm

<<
Property Value
The rank (number of dimensions) of the Array.
Since this array is one-dimensional, 1 is correct. I guess you want
Array.Length:

ms-help://MS.NETFramework.v20.en/cpref2/html/P_System_Array_Length.htm



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