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2,561 PointsPlease Help
I've never really been sure what the . is in the code for example path.length (where did that come from?) Please Help
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Jon Wood
9,884 PointsThe .
in C# (or all languages that can do Object Oriented Programming) is known as dot notation. This is used to access properties or methods on the object. So, in your example, the object path (which looks to be a variable) has a property on it called length
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Michael North
2,561 PointsMichael North
2,561 PointsThank you it makes much more sense!
Jon Wood
9,884 PointsJon Wood
9,884 PointsGlad it helped! :)