Question

I read a an array of bytes from a file
I pass this to a class that then assigns various bytes from that array to various members of varying sizes.

Ideally i would like to do something like this

memberThatIsAUShort = bitconverter.ToUShort(tempArray.subArray(3,5))
memberThatIsAShort = bitconverter.ToShort(tempArray.subArray(6,8))

Instead of looping through the array, copying the bytes to new shorter array and passing them in.

Answer 1

You would do this as:

memberThatIsAUShort = BitConverter.ToUInt16(tempArray,3)
memberThatIsAShort = BitConverter.ToInt16(tempArray,6)

These methods are both static (hence BitConverter casing), and already provide a startIndex parameter. Since BitConverter already knows the appropriate number of bytes for a short/ushort, you don’t need to specify end indices. For details, see BitConverter.ToUInt16 and BitConverter.ToInt16.