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title: "What’s the difference between the System.Array.CopyTo() and System.Array.Clone() ?"  
description: "What’s the difference between the System.Array.CopyTo() and System.Array.Clone() ?"  
author: "Anchal Kesharwani"  
published: 2014-09-20  
updated: 2020-09-20  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/interview/2164/what-s-the-difference-between-the-system-array-copyto-and-system-array-clone  
category: "c#"  
tags: [".net", "c#"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What’s the difference between the System.Array.CopyTo() and System.Array.Clone() ?

Using Clone() method, we creates a new array object containing all the elements in the original array and using CopyTo() method, all the elements of existing array copies into another existing array. Both the methods perform a shallow copy.


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