Question

I wondered, if it was possible to access a specific element of a multidimensional array using an array, rather than multiple integers.

Like for example:

int[,] map = sampleMap;
int[] position = { 1, 2 };

sampleObject = map[position]; // This line won't work. "cannot implicitly convert type 'int[]' to 'int'"

Instead of:

sampleObject = map[position[1], position[2]]

Of course, when working with only 2 dimensions, it wouldn’t be much of a problem, but imagine I had many dimensions, like 10:

map[position[1], position[2], position[3], ..., position[10]]

It would be much nicer and more elegant, to just write:

map[position]

I’ve been looking around, but the best I found was “How to access Arrays in [insert programming language here]” or “how to access elements from [insert Array type here]” or things like that.

Answer 1

Take a look at Array.GetValue(int[]) method