C# loop over an array of unknown dimensions

Question

I want to create an extension method to loop over System.Array with unknown number of dimensions

For now I am using a naive approach:

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Answer 1

For those of you playing at home, this is a little messy but allows you to foreach over a Rank taking advantage of yield

public static IEnumerable GetRank(this Array source,int dimension, params int[] indexes )
{

   var indexList = indexes.ToList();
   indexList.Insert(dimension, 0);
   indexes = indexList.ToArray();

   for (var i = 0; i < source.GetLength(dimension); i++)
   {
      indexes[dimension] = i;
      yield return (T)source.GetValue(indexes);
   }
}

Usage

var test1 = new int[2, 2, 3];
test1[1, 1, 0] = 1;
test1[1, 1, 1] = 2;
test1[1, 1, 2] = 3;
foreach (var item in test1.GetRank(2,1,1))
{
  Console.WriteLine(item);
}

Output

1
2
3

Full demo here