How to add a string to a string[] array? There's no .Add function

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private string[] ColeccionDeCortes(string Path)
{
    DirectoryInfo X = new DirectoryInfo(Path);
    FileInfo[] listaDeArchivos = X.GetFiles();
    string[] Coleccion;

    foreach (FileInfo FI in listaDeArchivos)
    {
        //Add the FI.Name to the Coleccion[] array, 
    }

    return Coleccion;
}

I'd like to convert the FI.Name to a string and then add it to my array. How can I do this?

long-filenames arrays c#
15 Answers

Adding a reference to Linq using System.Linq; and use the provided extension method Append: public static IEnumerable<TSource> Append<TSource>(this IEnumerable<TSource> source, TSource element) Then you need to convert it back to string[] using the .ToArray() method.

It is possible, because the type string[] implements IEnumerable, it also implements the following interfaces: IEnumerable<char>, IEnumerable, IComparable, IComparable<String>, IConvertible, IEquatable<String>, ICloneable

using System.Linq;
public string[] descriptionSet new string[] {"yay"};
descriptionSet = descriptionSet.Append("hooray!").ToArray();

Remember that ToArray allocates new array, therefore if you're adding more elements and you don't know how much of them you're going to have it's better to use List from System.Collections.Generic.

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string[] MyArray = new string[] { "A", "B" };
MyArray = new List<string>(MyArray) { "C" }.ToArray();
//MyArray = ["A", "B", "C"]
user_96972950

Create an extention:

public static class TextFunctions
{
    public static string [] Add (this string[] myArray, string StringToAdd)
    {
          var list = myArray.ToList();
          list.Add(StringToAdd);
          return list.ToArray();
    }
}

And use it as such:

foreach (FileInfo FI in listaDeArchivos)
{
    //Add the FI.Name to the Coleccion[] array, 
    Coleccion.Add(FI.Name);
}
user_161618180

I would do it like this:

DirectoryInfo X = new DirectoryInfo(Path);
FileInfo[] listaDeArchivos = X.GetFiles();
string[] Coleccion = new String[] { };

foreach (FileInfo FI in listaDeArchivos)
{
    Coleccion = Coleccion.Concat(new string[] { FI.Name }).ToArray();
}

return Coleccion;
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