Question Find Item in list by Index?

Is there a way to reference an item in a list by its index? If there is I cannot find it, if there isn't, how come?

 

Well you need to know the index to access it by its index. Otherwise you need to find the item based on some criteria, such as with

List<T>.Find(Predicate<T>)

: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.collections.generic.list-1.find?view=net-7.0

 

Perhaps you mean you just want to access list items by using an index?

Code (CSharp):

1.         List<int> blah=new List<int>();
2.         blah.Add(123);
3.         blah.Add(312);
4.         blah.Add(245);
5.  
6.         Debug.Log(blah[0]); // prints 123
7.         Debug.Log(blah[1]); // prints 312
8.         Debug.Log(blah[2]); // prints 245
9.  

 

Oh my gosh I feel so stupid, this is what no sleep does to you

for some reason I kept trying to use a method like " list1.Index(1) ". I was thinking "I know it's been a while since I've done any coding, but I was sure you could do something like this"

thank you guys for taking the time to reply to such a foolish question

 

No worries. I'm an old school array fan myself and so I often forget how to use lists.