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5 Ways To Drastically Shorten Your Code in C# 8.0

Save time and increase your development with these 5 techniques

Arnold Abraham
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5 min readMar 22, 2021

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What’s New In C# 8 (All Rights Reserved by CodingTech)

The C#8.0 included extra features, officially released by Microsoft, which can streamline code. To use them correctly, I will demonstrate five methods to shorten your code drastically and compare them with the previous language constructs. Microsoft provides a detailed overview. [1]

The new version of C# offers various new features, allowing us to use some instructions for code that are more elegant than before. Pattern matching, for example, which has been further developed here, plays a major role.

1. Indexes

We begin by introducing the new functions for indexed access. The following example exhibits the indexed access to a string and an array with integer values, as it was usual until now:

The outputs are now the character M and the digit 2. C#8.0 offers an index operator that counts from the end of a string and is represented by the character ‘^’

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