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Copy an array into another array.

  

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using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.IO;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary;
using System.Text;

namespace Dotnet.Commons.Reflection
{
  /// -----------------------------------------------------------------------
  /// <summary>  
  /// This utility class contains a rich sets of utility methods that perform operations 
  /// on objects during runtime such as copying of property and field values
  /// between 2 objects, deep cloning of objects, etc.  
  /// </summary>
  /// -----------------------------------------------------------------------
  public abstract class ObjectUtils
  {

    /// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    /// <summary>
    /// Copy an array into another array.
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="src">source array</param>
    /// <param name="dest">destination array</param>
    /// <returns>copied array</returns>
    /// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    public static object[] CopyArray(object[] src, object[] dest)
    {
      for (int i = 0; i < src.Length; i++)
      {

        Type ICloneType = src[i].GetType().GetInterface( "ICloneable" , true );
        MemberInfo[] mi = src[i].GetType().GetMember("Clone");

        if (src[i].GetType().IsPrimitive)
          dest[i] = src[i];

        // reference type
        else if( ICloneType != null )
        {
          //Getting the ICloneable interface from the object.
          ICloneable IClone = (ICloneable)src[i];

          dest[i] = IClone.Clone();

        }
        else if ((mi != null) && (mi.Length > 0))
        {
          dest[i] = src[i].GetType().InvokeMember("Clone", BindingFlags.InvokeMethod, null, src[i],null);
        }
        else  // copy reference
          dest[i] = src[i];
      
      }
      return dest;
    }
    }
}

   
    
  

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