Copy Arrays to Array

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I try to copy a Int Array into 2 other Int Arrays with

The first thing that is important is that in this line :

unsortedArray2 = unsortedArray;

you do not copy the values of the unsortedArray into unsortedArray2. The = is called the assignment operator

The assignment operator (=) stores the value of its right-hand operand in the storage location,

Now the second thing that you need to know to understand this phenomenon is that there are 2 types of objects in C# Reference Types and Value types

The documentation explains it actually quite nicely:

Variables of reference types store references to their data (objects), while variables of value types directly contain their data. With reference types, two variables can reference the same object; therefore, operations on one variable can affect the object referenced by the other variable.

The solution can be to use the Array.Copy method.

Array.Copy(unsortedArray, 0, unsortedArray2 , 0, unsortedArray.Length);

The CopyTo method would also work in this case

unsortedArray.CopyTo(unsortedArray2 , 0);

Note:this will work because the content of the array is a value type! If it would be also of reference type, changing a sub value of one of the items would lead also to a change in the same item in the destination array.

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