How do I save information into an array in c#?

I am in a very, very basic class. Essentially I wanted to use a function -- one that returns the double data type for each iteration of my for loop. I was able to accomplish this using a method (since arrays are already passed by reference into a method), but I was curious, could I accomplish the same thing using a function?

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Text;

using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace Chapter8_Prob_8

{

class Program

{

const int MAX_SIZE = 7;

static void Main(string[] args)

{

double[] empId = new double[MAX_SIZE] { 56588, 45201, 78951, 87775, 84512, 13028, 75804 };

//the book calls for an integer array to hold the number of hours worked by each employee

//this is unrealistic to use an integer, I need more points of accuracy. I will use a double.

double[] hours = new double[MAX_SIZE];

double[] payRate = new double[MAX_SIZE];

double[] wages = new double[MAX_SIZE];

//function to get the hours of the employees

getHoursAndPay(empId, hours, payRate);

calcWages(hours, payRate, wages);

displayResults(empId, hours, payRate, wages);

}//end main

Instead of using calcWages(hours, payRate, wages);
would it be possible to have something like,
wages = calcWages(hours, payRate) and then have a function that would return
each 'wage' into each element of the array?

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Vikram Agrawal11y ago

Hi Scott,
As per your requirement you can try following code. I hope it will be helpful to you.
your calcWages metho should be like this :
public List calcWages(double[] hours, double[] payRate)
{
    List wageList = new List();
    for ( int i=0; i< MAX_SIZE ; i++)
    {
// Code for calculating wages
wageList.Add(CalculateWage);
    }
    return wageList;
}

Thanks