How to use Indexer in C# class.
Understand Indexer in C#
In this tutorial we will learn the concept of Indexer in C#.
The formal definition of Indexer is “Indexer allows an object to be indexed
like an array”. If we define indexer in one class then the class will behave
like virtual array. We can access the object of that class just like array. In
this article we will try to understand how indexer works. Have a look on below code.
Indexer in class
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Collections;
namespace Client
{
class Person
{
public string Name { get; set; }
Person[] p = new Person[10];
public Person this[int i]
{
get
{
return p[i];
}
set
{
p[i] = value;
}
}
}
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
Person per = new Person();
per[0] = new Person();
per[0].Name = "Sourav Kayal";
Console.WriteLine(per[0].Name);
Console.ReadLine();
}
}
}
Output is given below.
In this example we have define simple Indexer in Person
class. We are seeing that with the help
of indexer we can able to use the object of Person class just like array with
the help of [] operator.
Access string using Indexer
In this example we will see how to access string array with
the help of Indexer.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Collections;
namespace Client
{
class Person
{
string[] name = { "Ram", "Shyam", "Sourab" };
public string this[int i]
{
get
{
return name[i];
}
set
{
name[i] = value;
}
}
}
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
Person p = new Person();
Console.WriteLine("0 th name=" + p[0]);
Console.WriteLine("1 st name=" + p[1]);
Console.ReadLine();
}
}
}
Here is sample output.
Here we are accessing string array with the
help of Person class just like array. We can implement Indexer even in Generic
class. In below example we will implement in generic class.
Indexer in generic class.
We can implement indexer in generic class. In below example
we will implement indexer in generic class. Try to understand below code.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Collections;
using Client;
namespace Client
{
class Test<T>
{
private T[] p = new T[10];
public T this[int i]
{
get
{
return p[i];
}
set
{
p[i] = value;
}
}
}
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
Test<string> strs = new Test<string>();
strs[0] = "Sourav Kayal";
Console.WriteLine("With String:= " + strs[0]);
Test<int> sint = new Test<int>();
sint[0] = 100;
Console.WriteLine("With Integer" + sint[0]);
Console.ReadLine();
}
}
}
Here is output.
Conclusion:-
In this article we have learned how to use Indexer in C# class.
Hope you understood the concept.