Use Params Keyword in C#

Introduction

Can you write a method that does not care about arguments. I mean, can you pass an arbitrary number of arguments in that method? I suggest a C# keyword that does provide this type of facility, named "Params".

The "Params" keyword allows passing a variable number arguments to a function.

What does "Params" do?

Using "Params", the arguments passed to a method are changed by the compiler to elements in a temporary array, and this array is then used to retrieve the method. To better clarify my point; I am try to explain an example in my thoughts about "Params".

Suppose we have a "totalsal()" function that calculates the total salary of all the employees, no matter how many employee's salarys are passed.

Why we use "Params"

To explain this point, I will also use another example.

I think you have already heard of the string class. The concat method, in case you have not heard of it, I will explain in one line, "this is used to concatenate two or more strings into one".

For example

string a ="abc";
string b="xyz";

string.Concat (a,b);

This method does not care how many string agreements are passed for concatenation.

For the purposes of the example above, you can say you are designing a library for other programmers to widely use.

Example

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Text;

using System.Threading.Tasks;

 

namespace Params

{

    class Program

    {

        static void Main(string[] args)

        {

            ADDParameters(1);

            ADDParameters(1, 2, 3, 4, 5);

           ADDParameters1("sha","rad");

           ADDParameters1("How", " are", " you", " ?");

            Console.ReadKey();

        }

        //for interger calculation

      public static void ADDParameters(params int[] arguemnts)

        {

            int add=0;

            foreach (int argu in arguemnts)

            {

                add += argu;

            }

            Console.WriteLine(add);

        }

      public static void ADDParameters1(params string[] arguemnts)

      {

          string add="";

          foreach (string argu in arguemnts)

          {

              add += argu;

          }

          Console.WriteLine(add);

      }

    }

}


Output

params-in-c-sharp.jpg

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