what is use of out parameter in c#

Question

Can you please tell me what is the exact use of out parameter?

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Answer 1

Jon Skeet describes the different ways of passing parameters in great detail in this article. In short, an out parameter is a parameter that is passed uninitialized to a method. That method is then required to initialize the parameter before any possible return.

Answer 2

The typical use case is a method that needs to return more than one thing, so it can't just use the return value. Commonly, the return value is used for a success flag while the out parameter(s) sets values when the method is successful.

The classic example is:

public bool TryGet( 
   string key,
   out string value
)

If it returns true, then value is set. Otherwise, it's not. This lets you write code such as:

string value;
if (!lookupDictionary.TryGet("some key", out value))
  value = "default";

Note that this doesn't require you to call Contains before using an indexer, which makes it faster and cleaner. I should also add that, unlike the very similar ref modifier, the compiler won't complain if the out parameter was never initialized.

Answer 3

generally we cannot get the variables inside a function if we don't get by a return value. but use keyword "out" we can change it value by a function.