How to access Object by index C#

Question

I have a foreach loop in C# which return some inventory data, the property location_id returns as an object[]. the loop as follows,

foreach (XmlRpcStruct item in result)
{
   object obj =  item["location_id"];
}

in debugger, I see the object as following,

so I guess object is something like

obj[0] = 12
obj[1] = "WH/Stock"

I tried to access the obj like obj[0] then I get

Cannot apply indexing with [] to an expression of type 'object'

So, how can I access the object by index to retrieve the values such as 12 and WH/Stock

Solution 1

Cast the obj as object[] using:

var list = (object[])obj;

Then you can use list[0].

Solution 2

Specify object array type:

object[] obj =  item["location_id"];

Or, even simplier, let the compiler infer type:

var obj =  item["location_id"];

Comments

[Dirk Vollmar]

"but that doesn't work": What error do you get?

[DevOpsSauce]

I don't know why this was "Closed as off topic" because I'm struggling with the exact same thing. Gotta love SO and their hubris.

[nuwaus]

Thank you, this worked well for me.

[Emad]

Don't forget to mark the answer. :)

[nuwaus]

Tried it already, then you'll get Cannot implicitly convert type 'object' to 'object[]'. An explicit conversion exists (are you missing a cast?) compile error.

[Dung]

great answer, thank you sir @Emad !

[Dung]

It is also known as boxing and unboxing an object c-sharpcorner.com/blogs/…