Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.
Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.
Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.
Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.
I have five text files that need to be loaded into memory. I set up a method in the main class that loads them into a some strings and stores them in a list. I need to call another method that will use the files loaded into memory. When I pass the List to the method, does it use it as a reference or does it copy the List to a new List object, essentially duplicating the data? I need to know because I call this method 500 or so times.
A list/collection/array/enumerable are all reference types, so they will be passed as reference. No cloning.