A Mutable Log

A blog by Devendra Tewari


Project maintained by tewarid Hosted on GitHub Pages — Theme by mattgraham

Check if C# object is an array and iterate over it

Sometimes, you want to know if an object is an array. One way to do it is

if (obj.GetType().IsArray) {
  ...
}

Another way you can do it is

if (obj is Array) {
  // ...
}

The advantage of using the Array type is that you can iterate over an array without bothering about the type of the objects it holds

foreach (object o in (Array)obj)
{
  // ...
}

To set the value at a particular array index, iterate using a for loop

for (int i = 0; i < ((Array)obj).Length; i++)
{
  ((Array)obj).SetValue(someval, i);
}

To wrap it up, obtain the type of the elements of an array thus

obj.GetType().GetElementType()