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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: "Pushpendra Singh"  
published: 2010-10-25  
updated: 2020-09-20  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/interview/97/what-s-the-difference-between-the-system-array-copyto-and-system-array-clone  
category: "c#"  
tags: ["c#"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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

1. The first one performs a deep copy of the array,the second one is shallow.\

## Answers

### Answer by Uttam Misra

1. The first one performs a deep copy of the array,the second one is shallow.\


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