Searches for the specified object and returns the index of the first occurrence within the entire one-dimensional System.Array.
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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
namespace Redwerb.BizArk.Core.ArrayExt
{
/// <summary>
/// Provides extension methods for string arrays.
/// </summary>
public static class ArrayExt
{
/// <summary>
/// Searches for the specified object and returns the index of the first occurrence
/// within the entire one-dimensional System.Array.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="arr">The one-dimensional System.Array to search.</param>
/// <param name="val">The object to locate in array.</param>
/// <returns>
/// The index of the first occurrence of value within the entire array, if found;
/// otherwise, the lower bound of the array minus 1.
/// </returns>
/// <exception cref="System.ArgumentNullException">arr is null</exception>
/// <exception cref="System.RankException">arr is multidimensional.</exception>
public static int IndexOf(this Array arr, object val)
{
return Array.IndexOf(arr, val);
}
/// <summary>
/// Determines if the array contains the given value.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="arr">The one-dimensional System.Array to search.</param>
/// <param name="val">The object to locate in array.</param>
/// <returns>
/// </returns>
/// <exception cref="System.ArgumentNullException">arr is null</exception>
/// <exception cref="System.RankException">arr is multidimensional.</exception>
public static bool Contains(this Array arr, object val)
{
if (Array.IndexOf(arr, val) < arr.GetLowerBound(0))
return false;
else
return true;
}
/// <summary>
/// Copies the array to a new array of the same type.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="arr"></param>
/// <returns></returns>
public static Array Copy(this Array arr)
{
var newArr = Array.CreateInstance(arr.GetType().GetElementType(), arr.Length);
arr.CopyTo(newArr, 0);
return newArr;
}
}
}
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