What does the (); represent in C#?

Question

so we have received a bunch of code from our teacher without him really explaining some of the functions behind it, so I have a silly question - Please be gentle.

I have an array of customers called customerlist and a for loop to load some text written in a document using StreamReader like so.

        customer[] customerlist = new customer[0];

        for (int i = 0; i < customerlist.Length; i++)
        {
            customerlist[i] = new customer();
            customerlist[i].id = Convert.ToInt32(reader.ReadLine());
            customerlist[i].FullName = reader.ReadLine();
        }

I know that the second and third lines of the for loop will read the customer id and full name though I am struggling to understand the functionality of the first line that is customerlist[i] = new customer(); and specifically the purpose of new customer(); I know that i might now have been very clear but hopefully someone could help me out a little, give me a hint of what that specific line of code id used for new customer(); Thanks.

Answer 1

In C# and Java thenewkeyword means a creation of a object of a class.

The "()" say what you have before is a function.