Question

Consider the following example taken from http://www.albahari.com/threading/:

using System;
using System.Threading;
class ThreadTest
{
  static void Main()
  {
    Thread t = new Thread (WriteY);          // Kick off a new thread
    t.Start();                               // running WriteY()

    // Simultaneously, do something on the main thread.
    for (int i = 0; i < 1000; i++) Console.Write ("x");
  }

  static void WriteY()
  {
    for (int i = 0; i < 1000; i++) Console.Write ("y");
  }
}

How do I modify the code to allow WriteY() to accept a string parameter so that I can have one thread pass “x” and one pass “y”?

Answer 1

using System;
using System.Threading;


public class ThreadTest {

    public static void Main () {

        Thread t=new Thread(WriteString);
        t.Start("y");
        Thread u=new Thread(WriteString);
        u.Start("x");

        t.Join();
        u.Join();

    }

    public static void WriteString (Object o) {

        for (Int32 i=0;i<1000;++i) Console.Write((String)o);

    }

}