如何在C＃中获取空数组的元素类型？

Question

Int32[] myArray = new Int32[0];

//Somewhere else in code: 
Type t = myArray.GetType();

//t == Int32[]
//element type of t == ???

How do I find out the element type that t was created to store.

The only example I've found works on arrays that aren't empty, where you simply do myArray[i].GetType(). So what do you do for array length 0?

FYI: I did the following and it works fine, but wow... it uses string conversion and is super ugly. There's got to be a better way:

Type t = myArray.GetType();
string strT = t.ToString();
string strArrayBase = strT.Substring(0, strT.Length - 2);
Type elementType = Type.GetType(strArrayBase);

Answer 1

You can use .GetElementType()

Eg:

> int[] arr = new int[0];
> arr.GetType().GetElementType()
[System.Int32]

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