Question

I am making a stock market game and I want to display an array of int as labels.

I don’t want to manually put it in for ever label. Is there a way to do this. I am using Visual Studio programming in C#.

Answer 1

Have a TableLayoutPanel on your form, so you can add controls to add and have them aligned and positioned automatically.

Then, to repopulate the labels according to your list of ints:

tableLayoutPanel.Controls.Clear();

foreach (var i in ints)
{
    tableLayoutPanel.Controls.Add(new Label {Text = i.ToString()});
}

If all you want is a method to get an array of ints and return an array of labels, then:

private Label[] GetLabels(int[] ints)
{
    return ints == null ? null : ints.Select(i => new Label {Text = i.ToString()}).ToArray();
}

Or without linq:

private Label[] GetLabels(int[] ints)
{
    if (ints == null)
    {
        return null;
    }

    var labels = new Label[ints.Length];

    for (var i = 0; i < ints.Length; i++)
    {
        labels[i] = new Label {Text = i.ToString()};
    }

    return labels;
}