Re: is a byte array Byte[] pass by reference



"Peted" wrote in message news:leb843l7vshsb75msa78dkrv55fjvul7ue@xxxxxxxxxx
somemethod(Byte [] array);

is the byte array passed by method or by reference ? or do you have to
use the ref keyword to be able to mod the contents of the orig array
from inside the method ?

Without using "ref", if you modify array[i] inside somemethod, the corresponding position is modified in the original array. If you use a "ref" keyword, then you would be passing "a reference to the reference", which would allow you to point the received reference somewhere else (moving the array to a different array), besides allowing you to merely modify the contents.


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