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Pushpa Dhakal
8,804 PointsThe first index of an array is .
Can you help on this question- Tried everything but, it is still giving error message
2 Answers
Steven Parker
215,939 PointsThe first index value of any array is always 0 .
Thomas Pope
1,319 PointsAll programming languages (to my knowledge) start counting from 0 with arrays and similar structures.
Steven Parker
215,939 PointsActually, languages with a math focus generally start indexes at 1. Examples would include: FORTRAN, SASL, MATLAB, Julia, Mathematica, Smalltalk, Lua, Erlang, and APL.
But the answer for C# is definitely 0.