title: How to declare and use a list of string array?
body: <p>I need to read a line in a file.
  Based on the first 3 characters in the file, I can determine a type of record.</p>
  
  <p>This indicates the number of strings the line needs to be split into.</p>
  
  <p>I need to hold all lines of the same type in a List.</p>
  
  <p>How do I do this?</p>
  
  <p>My sample file would look like </p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>123|gf|hf|gr|9 </p>
    
    <p>145*gf*43*434*9*645*554 </p>
    
    <p>123|grf|fe|yr|9</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>So all 123 would be in a list of string array type of length 4 like :</p>
  
  <pre><code>public List&lt;string[]&gt; NTE =new List&lt;string[4]&gt;();
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Except declaring a length isn't being accepted by the compiler</p>