How to declare a multidimensional array of strings in c#?

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1

I've tried some stuff like

public string[,] = new string[0,0];

and this line doesn't give me any errors in monodev or unity console, but it doesn't show up in the inspector, even if I place serialize field. I can still dynamically set strings with code, but can't give a predefined item in the inspector. Is this supposed to happen?

Is there any way I can get into the inspector some kind of dynamic 2d array of type string?

This is exactly what I want, but this answer was for javascript.

Thanks

2

You can create your own string array class and create an array of this:

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

[System.Serializable]
public class MultidimensionalString
{
    public string[] stringArray = new string[0];

    public string this[int index] {
        get {
            return stringArray[index];
        }

        set { 
            stringArray[index] = value; 
        }
    }

    public int Length {
        get {
            return stringArray.Length;
        }
    }

    public long LongLength {
        get {
            return stringArray.LongLength;
        }
    }
}

Usage:

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;

public class ArrayTest : MonoBehaviour {

    public MultidimensionalString[] multidimensional = new MultidimensionalString[10];

    public void Start(){
        multidimensional[1].stringArray = new string[4];
        multidimensional[1][1] = "test";    
        Debug.Log(multidimensional[1][1]);
    }

}

This answer is based on the following answer:

http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/47049/visializing-a-multidimensional-array

An alternative is to create a custom editor for that gives access to a specific GameObject that contains either multidimensional array of arrays-of-arrays. Note that this is a less general approach that the MultidimensionalString.

http://unity3d.com/support/documentation/ScriptReference/Editor.html

3

here yo can see a simple multidimesional array c# sample code

groval