Remove element of a regular array

Question

I have an array of Foo objects. How do I remove the second element of the array?

I need something similar to RemoveAt() but for a regular array.

Answer 1

Here is an old version I have that works on version 1.0 of the .NET framework and does not need generic types.

public static Array RemoveAt(Array source, int index)
{
    if (source == null)
        throw new ArgumentNullException("source");

    if (0 > index || index >= source.Length)
        throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException("index", index, "index is outside the bounds of source array");

    Array dest = Array.CreateInstance(source.GetType().GetElementType(), source.Length - 1);
    Array.Copy(source, 0, dest, 0, index);
    Array.Copy(source, index + 1, dest, index, source.Length - index - 1);

    return dest;
}

This is used like this:

class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        string[] x = new string[20];
        for (int i = 0; i < x.Length; i++)
            x[i] = (i+1).ToString();

        string[] y = (string[])MyArrayFunctions.RemoveAt(x, 3);

        for (int i = 0; i < y.Length; i++)
            Console.WriteLine(y[i]);
    }
}