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Advaitha
Advaitha

Reputation: 31

Is there a way to access the character of a string in a string array in C#?

I have a string array, I want to access the characters of the first element in that array: 

string[] str= new string[num];

for(int i = 0; i < num; i++)
{
    str[i] = Console.ReadLine();
}

To access the characters of the first element in the string array, in Java

str[0].CharAt[0] // 1st character

Is there a way in C# for this? The only function I could see was use of substring. It will incur more overhead in such case.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2567

Answers (3)

NicoRiff
NicoRiff

Reputation: 4883

Yes, you can do that:

string[] s = new string[]{"something", "somethingMore"};
char c = s[0][0];

Upvotes: 1

Ryan Johnson
Ryan Johnson

Reputation: 44

You could convert the first string of the string array to a character array and simply get the first value of the character array.

string[] stringArray = {"abc"};
char[] charArray = stringArray[0].ToCharArray();
char first = charArray[0];

Upvotes: 0

Jeppe Stig Nielsen
Jeppe Stig Nielsen

Reputation: 61952

You would use:

str[0][0]

where the first [0] is accessing the 0th array member, while the next [0] is the indexer defined by System.String which gives the 0th char value (UTF-16 code unit) of the string.

Upvotes: 5

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