Question

In the code below, Pages is defined as

 public SortedDictionary<DateTime, float[]> Pages { get; set; }

I am trying to dynamically increase the size of this array. Can anyone tell how to increase the sized of the innermost float[]?

 var tt = currentContainer.Pages[dateTime];
 Array.Resize<float>(ref tt, currentContainer.Pages.Count + 1);

Fail 1

I tried the following code and get index out of range exception

    SortedDictionary<DateTime, float[]> Pages = new SortedDictionary<DateTime,float[]>();
    float[] xx = new float[1];
    xx[0] = 1;
    DateTime tempTime = DateTime.UtcNow;
    Pages.Add(tempTime, xx);
    var tt = Pages[tempTime];
    Array.Resize<float>(ref tt, Pages.Count + 1);
    Pages[tempTime][1] = 2;

Fail 2

The following gives a compile time error (property, index, or dynamic member can’t be used as a ref value)

    SortedDictionary<DateTime, float[]> Pages = new SortedDictionary<DateTime,float[]>();
    float[] xx = new float[1];
    xx[0] = 1;
    DateTime tempTime = DateTime.UtcNow;
    Pages.Add(tempTime, xx);
    var tt = Pages[tempTime];
    // The line below is different from Fail 1 above ... compile time error
    Array.Resize<float>(ref Pages[tempTime], Pages.Count + 1);
    Pages[tempTime][1] = 2;

Question

What is the most performant answer to resize this array?

Would the answer change if it’s likely that the final size will be 100-200 floats or 700-900 floats?

What if I change my allocation size from +1 to +128? .. or larger?

Answer 1

Use List<T>,

Example,

SortedDictionary<DateTime, List<float>> data;

data = new SortedDictionary<DateTime, List<float>>();

data.Add(DateTime.Now, new List<float>() { 11.4f, 322.3f, 33.5f });

EDIT:

How to get/set values from the list?

List<float> a = new List<float>()
{
  10.2f,20.3f
};

float v1 = a[0];
float v2 = a[1];

Console.WriteLine("{0} {1}", v1, v2);

a[0] = 90.40f;
Console.WriteLine("{0} {1}", a[0],a[1]);