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YoshieMaster
YoshieMaster

Reputation: 257

Delete row of 2D string array in C#

I am making a program that stores data in a 2D array. I would like to be able to delete rows from this array. I cannot figure out why this code doesn't work:

for (int n = index; n < a.GetUpperBound(1); ++n)
{
     for (int i = 0; i < a.GetUpperBound(0); ++i)
     {
         a[i, n] = a[i, n + 1];
     }
}

Could someone please help me out? I would like it to delete a single row and shuffle all the rows below it up one place. Thankyou!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 10484

Answers (3)

ShawnFeatherly
ShawnFeatherly

Reputation: 2638

The nested for loop method here works well: https://stackoverflow.com/a/8000574

Here's a method that converts the outer loop of the [,] array method above to use linq. Using linq here is only recommended if you are also doing other things with linq during the traversal.

    public T[,] RemoveRow<T>(T[,] array2d, int rowToRemove)
    {
        var resultAsList = Enumerable
            .Range(0, array2d.GetLength(0))  // select all the rows available
            .Where(i => i != rowToRemove)    // except for the one we don't want
            .Select(i =>                     // select the results as a string[]
            {
                T[] row = new T[array2d.GetLength(1)];
                for (int column = 0; column < array2d.GetLength(1); column++)
                {
                    row[column] = array2d[i, column];
                }
                return row;
            }).ToList();

        // convert List<string[]> to string[,].
        return CreateRectangularArray(resultAsList); // CreateRectangularArray() can be copied from https://stackoverflow.com/a/9775057
    }

used Enumerable.Range to iterate all rows as done in https://stackoverflow.com/a/18673845

Upvotes: 1

Kimtho6
Kimtho6

Reputation: 6184

you need to create a new array if you want to delete an item

try something like this

var arrayUpdated = new string[a.GetUpperBound(1)][a.GetUpperBound(0)-1];
for (int n = index; n < a.GetUpperBound(1); n++)
{
     for (int i = 0; i < a.GetUpperBound(0); i++)
     {
         arrayUpdated [i, n] = a[i, 1];
     }
}

Upvotes: 2

user623879
user623879

Reputation: 4142

Shouldn't ++i be i++? ++i increments before matrix operation is performed(ie pre-increment)

Upvotes: -1

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