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Learning C# by Developing Games with Unity 5.x

You're reading from   Learning C# by Developing Games with Unity 5.x Develop your first interactive 2D platformer game by learning the fundamentals of C#

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785287596
Length 230 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Preface 1. Discovering Your Hidden Scripting Skills and Getting Your Environment Ready 2. Introducing the Building Blocks for Unity Scripts FREE CHAPTER 3. Getting into the Details of Variables 4. Getting into the Details of Methods 5. Lists, Arrays, and Dictionaries 6. Loops 7. Object, a Container with Variables and Methods 8. Let's Make a Game! – From Idea to Development 9. Starting Your First Game 10. Writing GameManager 11. The Game Level 12. The User Interface 13. Collectables — What Next? Index

Searching for data inside an array


Very often, you will need to get a single element inside an array. It's very straightforward as long as you know the specific index your element is stored under. If you don't, you can search for it by iterating through the entire array object.

Yet again, let's go back to the familyMembers example and try to look for the index of the "Adam" string value:

We are not going too much into the details. The easiest way of finding the index of a certain element in the collection is by looping through the array and comparing elements. You can spot that on line 22. If the familyMembers[i] == "Adam" condition is true, line 23 will be executed. The adamsIndex variable will be then assigned the current i value.

Notice the default value of adamsIndex. I deliberately assigned it -1 so that we can check on line 29 whether there were any changes to this value inside the loop. If it's still -1, it means that the value we are trying to find inside the array was not found at...

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