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