Question

Forgive my ignorance if this is ‘a basic question’…..

I have a method that needs to be able to accept differing numbers and types of inputs. Eg

protected void example(int iVar, string sVar)

&/or

protected voide example(int iVar, string sVar, double dVar)

Putting aside questions/comments such as “Why????”, is there an easy / shorthand way of doing this without writing the method twice?

Any help &/or pointers will be very greatfully received.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You can make your last parameter an optional argument (C# 4.0 and above):

protected void example(int iVar, string sVar, double dVar = 0.0)

Alternatively, the implementation of the first method could simply call the second:

protected void example(int iVar, string sVar)
{
    example(iVar, sVar, 0.0);
}