Pass part of an array

[birthjay]

Can you pass part of an array?

For example, if I have an array of 4....can I pass the first half and then the second half in to a function? What I mean by half is like the first two elements and then the second two.

Hope this is clear enough for a general answer.

Thanks!

[Pirate]

Well , I don't think so . An array is contiguous cells allocated in the memory identitified by one name . As a workaround , you can make temp array that hold two elements and copy from the source just the two .

[sunburnt]

You could use unsafe code and pass a pointer to the first elements in each section. A better solution would be to have each function take the the array, a start, and length arguments to determine where it should get its arguments from.

[Pirate]

Just to clear something up , I was talking in a managed code view point.

[sunburnt]

Just to clear something up , I was talking in a managed code view point.

Which is definently a better option. There's no reason to use unsafe code for something like this where you could design it better using a managed solution. I was just throwing that out there

[MrPolite]

try the Array.GetValue (params long[] indecies) method.