Change a line of code in a while loop

Question

Beginner in C# here. I was wondering if the following is even possible in c#.

I have the following code that works (but does not do much as of now):

while (i != 10)
        {
            i++;
            _playerCard1.Source = new BitmapImage(new Uri($"ms-appx:///Assets/card {cardsInHand[cardsInHand.Count - 1].Face}.gif"));
        }

Now I have other Image fields in my program named _playerCard2, _playerCard3 and so on. What I wanted to know was if I could have the while loop iterate through the different Image fields using the i variable. Something like this:

while (i != 10)
        {
            i++;
            _playerCard{i}.Source = new BitmapImage(new Uri($"ms-appx:///Assets/card {cardsInHand[cardsInHand.Count - 1].Face}.gif"));
        }

I know the above code will not work, just wondering if it even is possible and if so how would I code it? Thank you for all your help!

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 15 '16 at 00:15

What you need is an array or list of playerCard then you can iterate each item. For example.

//create a simple array of cards
var playerCards = new[] { _playerCard1, _playerCard2, _playerCard3 }; 

//iterate each card
for(var i = 0; i < playerCards.length; i++)
{
    _playerCards[i].Source = new BitmapImage(new Uri($"ms-appx:///Assets/card {cardsInHand[cardsInHand.Count - 1].Face}.gif"));
}

Change a line of code in a while loop

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