How to Create a Multidimensional Array in C#

Submitted by donbermoy on Monday, June 30, 2014 - 12:50.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a multidimensional array in your program in C#. We all know that an array a collection of variables of the same type that are referred to by a common name. Meaning, it is a storage variable that has different values. This is a continuation of my other tutorial entitled How to Create One-Dimensional Array in C# To declare a two-dimensional array in C#, have this syntax:

data type[ , ] array name = new data type[rows, columns];

To declare a three-dimensional array in C#, have this syntax:

data type[ , , ] array name = new data type[size, size, size];

Now, let's start this tutorial! 1. Let's start with creating a Console Application in C# for this tutorial by following the following steps in Microsoft Visual Studio: Go to File, click New Project, and choose Console Application and name your project as MultidimensionalArray. 2. Now, put this code in your program.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
 
namespace MultidimensionalArray
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            //declare a two dimensional string array 
            string[,] array2DString = new string[3, 2] { { "one", "two" }, { "three", "four" },
                                        { "five", "six" } };
            //declare a two dimensional integer array 
            int[,] array2DInt = new int[, ] { { 1, 2, 3 }, { 4, 5, 6 }, { 7, 8, 9 }, { 10, 11, 12 } };
 
            //declare a three dimensional integer array 
            int[, ,] array3DInt = new int[,,] { { { 1, 2, 3 }, { 4, 5, 6 } }, 
                                 { { 7, 8, 9 }, { 10, 11, 12 } } };
 
 
            // array in two dimensional named array2DString
            Console.WriteLine("***Two Dimensional Array named array2Dstring***");
            Console.WriteLine(array2DString[0, 0]); //display one
            Console.WriteLine(array2DString[0, 1]); //display two
            Console.WriteLine(array2DString[1, 0]);//display three
            Console.WriteLine(array2DString[1, 1]);//display four
            Console.WriteLine(array2DString[2, 0]);//display five
            Console.WriteLine(array2DString[2, 1]);//display six
            Console.WriteLine("\n");
 
            Console.WriteLine("***Two Dimensional Array named array2DInt***");
            Console.WriteLine(array2DInt[0,0]); // display 1
            Console.WriteLine(array2DInt[0, 1]); // display 2
            Console.WriteLine(array2DInt[0, 2]); // display 3
            Console.WriteLine(array2DInt[1, 0]);// display 4
            Console.WriteLine(array2DInt[1, 1]);// display 5
            Console.WriteLine(array2DInt[1, 2]);// display 6
            Console.WriteLine("\n");
 
            Console.WriteLine("***Three-Dimensional Array named array3DInt***");
            Console.WriteLine(array3DInt[0, 0, 0]);// display 1
            Console.WriteLine(array3DInt[0, 0, 1]); // display 2
            Console.WriteLine(array3DInt[0, 0, 2]);// display 3
            Console.WriteLine(array3DInt[0, 1, 0]);// display 4
            Console.WriteLine(array3DInt[0, 1, 1]);// display 5
            Console.WriteLine(array3DInt[0, 1, 2]);// display 6
            Console.WriteLine(array3DInt[1, 0, 0]);// display 7
            Console.WriteLine(array3DInt[1, 0, 1]);// display 8
            Console.WriteLine(array3DInt[1, 0, 2]);// display 9
 
    
        }
    }
}

We declare the two-dimensional array of string with the named array2DString that has the size of 3 rows and 2 columns that has a specified value in it as { "one", "two" }, { "three", "four" }, { "five", "six" }. To display the first element we have the code Console.WriteLine(array2DString[0, 0]); to display one. We all know that an array starts with 0, and String one was in row 0, and column 0. To display two, we declare the dimension of 0,1 because String 2 is in column 1. In the three-dimensional array, we have now two commas (, ,) referring to the three dimensions of the array. We have declared a three dimensional integer array named array3DInt. We did not specify the number of rows and columns in it to make sure to have no error as we put new int[,,] . Then it has the value inside of the 3D array { { 1, 2, 3 }, { 4, 5, 6 } }, { { 7, 8, 9 }, { 10, 11, 12 } }. To display the 1, we write this code Console.WriteLine(array3DInt[0, 0, 0]); Why it was 0,0,0 to display the 1? because 0 is the first in the array list. Output: output

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