populating an array of structs at compile time?

Question

I'm a little embarrassed to ask this one, since it seems so fundamental, but here goes anyway:

I'm trying to create an array of structs which I'll populate at compile-time. So I've got a struct

struct S {
string str;
int idx;
double wgt;
};

which I want to populate something like this:

S [] s = {
{ "name", 0, 1.24 },
{ "foo", 3, 3.14 },
...
{ "", 0.0, 0.0 }
};

I've tried the above and a variety of permutations, but can't figure out how to get the compiler to accept it. I can call the struct a class, but that doesn't seem to make much difference. It's a big list, and this kind of problem is not unusual in coding, so there must be a way!

Thanks for any help,
Hugh

Shankey · Answer

Hi hugh Try the following code to initialize array of struct and display. And Mark my answer as accepted if it helped you. :) **************************************************** using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; namespace StructExample { public class Class1 { public struct S { string str; int idx; double wgt; public S(string str int idx double wgt) { this.str = str; this.idx = idx; this.wgt = wgt; } public void display() { Console.WriteLine(Struct values); Console.WriteLine(str = {0} idx = {1}  wgt = {2} this.str  this.idxthis.wgt); } } public static void Main() { // Compile time Initialize: S[] arr = { new S(Array 111.5) new S(Array 222.5) new S(Array 333.5)}; //Display one by one for (int i = 0; i { arr[i].display(); } } } } *************************************************

Hugh · Answer

Thanks Maninder - that works! Too simple...