Question

Here is my code: An ArrayList of ArrayList that returns a float:

public ArrayList walls=new ArrayList(); 

public void Start()
{
    walls[0] = ReturnInArrayList(279,275,0,0,90);
    walls[1] = ReturnInArrayList(62,275,0,0,0);
    walls[2] = ReturnInArrayList(62,275,62,0,90);
    walls[3] = ReturnInArrayList(217,275,62,-62,0);
    walls[4] = ReturnInArrayList(62,275,279,0,90);
    walls[5] = ReturnInArrayList(41,275,279,0,0);
    walls[6] = ReturnInArrayList(279,275,320,0,9);
    walls[7] = ReturnInArrayList(320,275,0,-279,0); 

    for (int i = 0; i < walls.Length; i++) {
        float a = (float)walls[i][0];
        float b = (float)walls[i][1];
        float c = (float)walls[i][2];
        float d = (float)walls[i][3];
        float e = (float)walls[i][4];
    }
}

ArrayList ReturnInArrayList(float a,float b,float c, float d, float e)
{
    ArrayList arrayList = new ArrayList();
    arrayList.Add(a);
    arrayList.Add(b);
    arrayList.Add(c);
    arrayList.Add(d);
    arrayList.Add(e);
    return arrayList;
}

It gives me the following error:

error CS0021: Cannot apply indexing with [] to an expression of type
`object’

I already did the casting, what is wrong? 🙁

Answer 1

The problem is that paredes[i] returns an object which is the return type of the ArrayList indexer. You need to cast this to an ArrayList to be able to access it:

float a= (float)((ArrayList)paredes[i])[0];

A better solution though is to use generics and populate a List<float> instead:

List<float> RetornaEmList(float a,float b,float c, float d, float e)
{
    return new List<float> { a, b, c, d, e };
}

then paredes is a List<List<float>> and your accessor can be changed to:

float a = paredes[i][0];