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I’m trying to write my own save/load serializer and my interactive objects all have a class that derives from a base object class. What I want to do is, at save time, check to see if all of the objects in my inventory match to a certain child class of object.

I’m looking for something like this:
class classes = { object, meleeWeapon, shootingWeapon };
Where object, meleeWeapon, and shootingWeapon are all classes and the latter two are inherited from object.

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If you have

public class Object{}
public class MeleeWeapon : Object{}
public class ShootingWeapon : Object{}

you can do

Object[] objects=new Object[]{new Object(), new MeleeWeapon(), new ShootingWeapon()};

Edit:
While you can make an array of class types in c# you cannot use them as you want.

In C# class types can be stored as Type. For instance

Type[] types= { typeof(Object), typeof(MeleeWeapon), typeof(RangedWeapon)};

Unfortunately for you pseudocode, C# will not allow you to use these as you described. C# performs type checks at compile time so it does not allow variable class types. You cannot not use the code

inventoryObject[0].GetComponent<c>()
inventoryObject[0].GetComponent("c") as c

because C# could not tell if there is a class type mismatch at compile time

However you can do what you described in your pseudocode using case/switch or if/else statements. If you want to save different variables depending on what class type you encounter in the array you needed to run different code depending on class type anyways.

i.e.

ClassType[]classTypes=new ClassType[]{ClassType.Object, 
                                      ClassType.MeleeWeapon, 
                                      ClassType.ShootingWeapon};
foreach (ClassType classType in classTypes)
 {
    switch(classType){
        case ClassType.Object;
            Write(inventoryObject[0].GetComponent<Object>(), Writer writer);
            break;
        case ClassType.Object;
            Write(inventoryObject[1].GetComponent<MeleeWeapon>(), Writer writer);
            break;
        case ClassType.Object;
            Write(inventoryObject[2].GetComponent<ShootingWeapon>(), Writer writer);
            break;
    }
 }

or

Type[] types=new Type>[]{ typeof(Object), typeof(MeleeWeapon), typeof(ShootingWeapon) };
foreach (Type type in types)
 {
    if(type==typeOf(Object)){
        Write(inventoryObject[0].GetComponent<Object>(), Writer writer);
    }
    else if(type==typeOf(MeleeWeapon)){
        Write(inventoryObject[0].GetComponent<MeleeWeapon>(), Writer writer);
    }
    else if(type==typeOf(ShootingWeapon)){
        Write(inventoryObject[0].GetComponent<ShootingWeapon>(), Writer writer);
    }
 }