Although every element in an array must be the same type, there’s a little trick that you can use to store items of different types. Since every other type inherits from System.Object (or object), you can declare the array to be of typeobject and then store any object in it.
Here’s an example of a 5-element array of object, in which we store some value types, an enum and a couple custom types.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 | object[] things = new object[5];things[0] = 12; // intthings[1] = 45.6f; // floatthings[2] = Moods.Cranky; // enum Moodsthings[3] = new Person(); // custom typesthings[4] = new Cat(); |
If you examine the array in the debugger, you’ll see each element is an object, but also a more specific type.
