# V3102. Suspicious access to element by a constant index inside a loop.

The analyzer detected a possible error that has to do with trying to access the elements of an array or list using the same constant index at each iteration of a 'for' loop.

Consider the following example:

    ParameterInfo[] parameters = method.GetParameters();

    for (int i = 0; i < parameters.Length; i++)
    {
        Type parameterType = parameters[0].ParameterType;
        ....
    }

In this code, the programmer wanted the value of the i-th element of the 'parameters' array to be assigned to variable 'parameterType' at each loop iteration, but because of a typo only the first element is accessed all the time. Another explanation is that the programmer probably used the element at index zero for debugging and then forgot to change the index value.

Fixed code:

    ParameterInfo[] parameters = method.GetParameters();

    for (int i = 0; i < parameters.Length; i++)
    {
        Type parameterType = parameters[i].ParameterType;
        ....
    }

Here is one more example, taken from a real application:

    if (method != null && method.SequencePoints.Count > 0)
    {
      CodeCoverageSequence firstSequence = method.SequencePoints[0];
      int line = firstSequence.Line;
      int column = firstSequence.Column;

      for (int i = 1; i < method.SequencePoints.Count; ++i)
      {
       CodeCoverageSequence sequencePoint = method.SequencePoints[0];
       if (line > sequencePoint.Line)
       {
         line = sequencePoint.Line;
         column = sequencePoint.Column;
       }
      }
      // ....
    }

In this code, the programmer wrote a separate block of code to access the first element of the 'method.SequencePoints' list while the other elements are processed in a loop. However, the programmer copied the line accessing the first element into the loop body and changed only the variable name from 'firstSequence' to 'sequencePoint' but forgot about the index.

Fixed code:

    if (method != null && method.SequencePoints.Count > 0)
    {
      CodeCoverageSequence firstSequence = method.SequencePoints[0];
      int line = firstSequence.Line;
      int column = firstSequence.Column;

      for (int i = 1; i < method.SequencePoints.Count; ++i)
      {
       CodeCoverageSequence sequencePoint = method.SequencePoints[i];
       if (line > sequencePoint.Line)
       {
         line = sequencePoint.Line;
         column = sequencePoint.Column;
       }
      }
      // ....
    }

You can look at examples of errors detected by the V3102 diagnostic.