Cell creation

Cell arrays are derived from type ILArray<ILBaseArray>. Therefore they inherit all the creation features of it's base class ILArray<ILBaseArray>. Cells are created as empty ILCell or by creating an ILCell with predefined elements.

Creating empty ILCells

The syntax for creating an empty ILCell is as follows:

ILCell C = new ILCell(4,3,2);

This will create an ILCell, capable of holding 24 data elements, ordered in an rectangular array of size 4 x 3 x 2. The elements of the ILCell will be initialized empty.

Just like with ILArray<> you may create ILCell of arbitrary dimensions. ILNumerics.Net will prevent you from defining too less dimensions and will automatically create at least 2 dimensions.

Creating ILCells with predefined values

In order to give the ILCell predefined values for its elements, one can use the following syntax:

// create 4 arrays and store them in a System.Array
ILBaseArray [] elements = new ILBaseArray[4]; 
elements[0] = ILMath.rand(2,3,1,5); 
elements[1] = new ILArray<Int16> (new Int16[]{4,3,2,1,2,3,4,5},2,3);   
elements[2] = ILMath.zeros(3,2,3); 
elements[3] = new string[] { "string1", "some text", "some more text", "foo"}; 

// now construct the cell array with predefined values 
ILCell C = new ILCell(elements,4,1);

C will be created as ILCell, holding 4 arrays of dissimilar kinds in a column vector shape.