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C#

Posted by Gavin McHugh
Gavin McHugh
348 Points

what dose new string mean in C#

what dose new string mean in C#

1 Answer

Damien Watson
Damien Watson
27,419 Points
Damien Watson
Damien Watson
27,419 Points

The keyword 'new' is used to Instantiate a class, it's saying "give me a new version of string[]". In the context you are describing, there is a class of type 'string' which is to be an array 'string[]'. You are setting the variable 'fields' to equal a new instance of it, initialising it with 4 items.

Any time you want to instantiate a class, you need to use 'new'. Does this help?

Gavin McHugh
Gavin McHugh
348 Points

in this context when using arrays static string[] fields = new string[4];