Array.BinarySearch - What I failed to realize...

I was proposing a solution to a problem today and realized that I had an invalid assumption about the nature of the Array.BinaySearch function so I ran a quick test to confirm and verify my ignorance. So I defined the following test:

string _mystring = "8,2,3,4,5,6,7,1"; //notice that 1 is not in numerical order
string [] myarray = _mystring.Split(',');

int result;

for (int i=1; i < 9; i++)
{
	result = Array.BinarySearch(myarray, i.ToString());
	Console.WriteLine(string.Format("The value of {0} has been found at {1}.",i,result.ToString()));
}

Console.ReadLine();

This resulted in the following output, clearly it could not find "1" or "8" even though they are at the beginning and the end of the array ... herein my fundamental floor was ultimately expressed and the anomaly revealed.

The simple problem here is that BinarySearch only works on arrays that are sorted! How did I forget that?!?!?

So this serves as an official note to self, when you are using BinarySearch on an unsorted array perform an Array.Sort:

string _mystring = "8,2,3,4,5,6,7,1"; //notice that 1 is not in numerical order       
string [] myarray = _mystring.Split(',');
Array.Sort(myarray);

Doh!