List, IEnumbrable , IEnumerator

Posted by Bhupentiwari under C# on 9/28/2012 | Points: 10 | Views : 2507 | Status : [Member] | Replies : 2

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Hi frnds

Please refer below code and kindly tell me the difference of looping over list using foreach,IEnumbrable and IEnumerator

Why i should use IEnumbrable and IEnumerator if i can do with foreach in simple way

  List<string> weekObj = new List<string>();    

        weekObj.Add("Sunday");
        weekObj.Add("Monday");
        weekObj.Add("Tuesday");
        weekObj.Add("Wednesday");
        weekObj.Add("Thrusday");
        weekObj.Add("Friday");
        weekObj.Add("Saturday");

        foreach (string d in weekObj)
            Response.Write(d.ToString());
            Response.Write("<br>");

        IEnumerable weekenum = (IEnumerable)weekObj;
        foreach (string day in weekenum)
            Response.Write(day.ToString());    
            Response.Write("<br>");


        IEnumerator weekIterator = weekObj.GetEnumerator();
        while (weekIterator.MoveNext())
            Response.Write(weekIterator.Current.ToString());

Thanks n Regards
Bhupendra Tiwari

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Posted by: Pgayath on: 9/28/2012 [Member] Starter | Points: 25

0	Bhupendra: I see the advantage only from performance stand point. Whereas the List has following advantages. 1. We can iterate the IEnumerable interface using possibly only FOR-EACH loop. But List can be iterated using several ways. List can also be indexed by an int index and adding/ removing elements at a particular index is also easy. 2. We can't randomly access an IEnumerable interface, whereas we can use integral index to access the List. Thanks and Regards, Gayathri P Bhupentiwari, if this helps please login to Mark As Answer. \| Alert Moderator

Bhupendra:

I see the advantage only from performance stand point.
Whereas the List has following advantages.

1. We can iterate the IEnumerable interface using possibly only FOR-EACH loop. But List can be iterated using several ways. List can also be indexed by an int index and adding/ removing elements at a particular index is also easy.

2. We can't randomly access an IEnumerable interface, whereas we can use integral index to access the List.

Thanks and Regards,
Gayathri P

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Posted by: Pgayath on: 9/28/2012 [Member] Starter | Points: 25

0	Also please have alook at this. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3628425/ienumerable-vs-list-what-to-use-how-do-they-work Bhupentiwari, if this helps please login to Mark As Answer. \| Alert Moderator

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