from array to datatable

Question

ok i now it supose to be simple y have a multidimensional array, I try to fill my data table using the following code:

System.Data.DataTable _myDataTable =ne         


        

Answer 1

As pointed out by chiffre you actually have 3 problems: You will have to add all columns before you can start to add rows and you will have to create a DataRow before you can add it to your DataTable. Your third problem is your row-dimension counter caract+1 which will yield an IndexOutOfRange exception.

DataTable _myDataTable = new DataTable();

// create columns
for (int i = 0; i < ele; i++)
{
    _myDataTable.Columns.Add();
}

for (int j = 0; j < caract; j++)
{
    // create a DataRow using .NewRow()
    DataRow row = _myDataTable.NewRow();

    // iterate over all columns to fill the row
    for (int i = 0; i < ele; i++)
    {
        row[i] = datar[i, j];
    }

    // add the current row to the DataTable
    _myDataTable.Rows.Add(row);
}

Answer 2

        var dt = new DataTable();
        var iFila = vals.GetLongLength(0);
        var iCol = vals.GetLongLength(1);

        for (var f = 1; f < iFila; f++)
        {
            var row = dt.Rows.Add();
            for (var c = 1; c <= iCol; c++)
            {
                if (f == 1) 
                    dt.Columns.Add(vals[1, c] != null 
                        ? vals[1, c].ToString() 
                        : "");

                row[vals[1, c].ToString()] = vals[f, c];
            }
        }

Answer 3

Works if you have an array where the first row has the DataTable column name(s).

    public static System.Data.DataTable ArrayToDataTable(Array array, bool headerQ=true)
    {
        if (array == null || array.GetLength(1) == 0 || array.GetLength(0) == 0) return null;
        System.Data.DataTable dt = new System.Data.DataTable();
        int dataRowStart = headerQ ? 1 : 0;

        // create columns
        for (int i = 1; i <= array.GetLength(1); i++)
        {
            var column = new DataColumn();
            string value = array.GetValue(1, i) is System.String
                ? array.GetValue(1, i).ToString() : "Column" + i.ToString();

            column.ColumnName = value;
            dt.Columns.Add(column);
        }
        if (array.GetLength(0) == dataRowStart) return dt;  //array has no data

        //Note:  the array is 1-indexed (not 0-indexed)
        for (int i = dataRowStart + 1; i <= array.GetLength(0); i++)
        {
            // create a DataRow using .NewRow()
            DataRow row = dt.NewRow();

            // iterate over all columns to fill the row
            for (int j = 1; j <= array.GetLength(1); j++)
            {
                row[j-1] = array.GetValue(i,j);
            }

            // add the current row to the DataTable
            dt.Rows.Add(row);
        }
        return dt;
    }

Answer 4

How about an extension method

static class HappyExtEnding
{
    public static DataTable ToDataTable<T>(this T [] students)
    {
        if (students == null || students.Length == 0) return null;

        DataTable table = new DataTable();
        var student_tmp = students[0];
        table.Columns.AddRange(student_tmp.GetType().GetFields().Select(field => new DataColumn(field.Name, field.FieldType)).ToArray());
        int fieldCount = student_tmp.GetType().GetFields().Count();

        students.All(student =>
        {
            table.Rows.Add(Enumerable.Range(0, fieldCount).Select(index => student.GetType().GetFields()[index].GetValue(student)).ToArray());
            return true;
        });

        return table;
    }
}

Usage

Student[] students = {
     new Student { Id = 1, Name = "Joe Rattz", Address = "Sriram Apartments" },
     new Student { Id = 6, Name = "Ulyses Hutchens", Address = "Sriram Apartments" },
     new Student { Id = 19, Name = "Bob Tanko", Address = "Sriram Apartments" },
     new Student { Id = 45, Name = "Erin Doutensal", Address = "Sriram Apartments" },
     new Student { Id = 1, Name = "Joe Rattz", Address = "Sriram Apartments" },
     new Student { Id = 12, Name = "Bob Mapplethorpe", Address = "Sriram Apartments" },
     new Student { Id = 17, Name = "Anthony Adams", Address = "Sriram Apartments" },
     new Student { Id = 32, Name = "Dignan Stephens Mark", Address = "Sriram Apartments" },
     new Student { Id = 1232, Name = "Dignan Stephens", Address = "Sriram Apartments Henry Labamba Beligi" },
     new Student { Id = 132, Name = "Neha Dhupia", Address = "Sriram Apartments 123456" },
     new Student { Id = 132, Name = "", Address = "Sriram Apartments 123456" },
     new Student { Id = 133, Name = "", Address = "Sriram Apartments 123456" },
     new Student { Id = 134, Name = "Neha Dhupia", Address = "" },
     new Student { Id = 134, Name = "Shradha Kapoor", Address = "Mumbai" }
 };

 //ParallelQuery<int>

 DataTable dtTmp = students.ToDataTable() ;

Answer 5

Some issues:

1. your code adds no column
2. your code adds no row

Proceed step by step.

1. Adding columns.

   //using System.Data
   DataTable _myDataTable = new DataTable();
   _myDataTable.Columns.Add(new DataColumn("Field_1"));
   _myDataTable.Columns.Add(new DataColumn("Field_2"));
   //...
   _myDataTable.Columns.Add(new DataColumn("Field_Ele"));
   

2. Adding rows. You need to create a new Datarow from _myDataTable, populate it with data, add it to the table:

   //assuming your data are stored in datar[,]
   String[,] datar = new String[max_i, max_j];
   for (int i = 0; i < ele; i++)
   {
       DataRow r = _myDataTable.NewRow();
       for (int j = 0; j < caract; j++)
       {
           //mind casting issues
           r[j] = datar[i, j];
       }
       _myDataTable.rows.add(r);
   }
   

See here for details.

Answer 6

public static DataSet MultidimensionalArrayToDataSet(string[,] input)
{
    var dataSet = new DataSet();
    var dataTable = dataSet.Tables.Add();
    var iFila = input.GetLongLength(0);
    var iCol = input.GetLongLength(1);

    //Fila
    for (var f = 1; f < iFila; f++)
    {
        var row = dataTable.Rows.Add();
        //Columna
        for (var c = 0; c < iCol; c++)
        {
            if (f == 1) dataTable.Columns.Add(input[0, c]);
            row[c] = input[f, c];
        }
    }
    return dataSet;
}