After looking on MSDN, it's still unclear to me how I should form a proper predicate to use the Find() method in List using a member variable of T (where T is a class)
For example:
public class Car
{
public string Make;
public string Model;
public int Year;
}
{ // somewhere in my code
List<Car> carList = new List<Car>();
// ... code to add Cars ...
Car myCar = new Car();
// Find the first of each car made between 1980 and 2000
for (int x = 1980; x < 2000; x++)
{
myCar = carList.Find(byYear(x));
Console.Writeline(myCar.Make + myCar.Model);
}
}
What should my "byYear" predicate look like?
(The MSDN example only talks about a List of dinosaurs and only searches for an unchanging value "saurus" -- It doesn't show how to pass a value into the predicate...)
EDIT: I'm using VS2005/.NET2.0, so I don't think Lambda notation is available to me...
EDIT2: Removed "1999" in the example because I may want to "Find" programatically based on different values. Example changed to range of cars from 1980 to 2000 using for-do loop.
Ok, in .NET 2.0 you can use delegates, like so:
static Predicate<Car> ByYear(int year)
{
return delegate(Car car)
{
return car.Year == year;
};
}
static void Main(string[] args)
{
// yeah, this bit is C# 3.0, but ignore it - it's just setting up the list.
List<Car> list = new List<Car>
{
new Car { Year = 1940 },
new Car { Year = 1965 },
new Car { Year = 1973 },
new Car { Year = 1999 }
};
var car99 = list.Find(ByYear(1999));
var car65 = list.Find(ByYear(1965));
Console.WriteLine(car99.Year);
Console.WriteLine(car65.Year);
}
You can use a lambda expression as follows:
myCar = carList.Find(car => car.Year == 1999);
Or you can use an anonymous delegate:
Car myCar = cars.Find(delegate(Car c) { return c.Year == x; });
// If not found myCar will be null
if (myCar != null)
{
Console.Writeline(myCar.Make + myCar.Model);
}
Since you can't use lambda you can just replace it with an anonymous delegate.
myCar = carList.Find(delegate(Car car) { return car.Year == i; });
Hmm. Thinking more about it, you could use currying to return a predicate.
Func<int, Predicate<Car>> byYear = i => (c => c.Year == i);
Now you can pass the result of this function (which is a predicate) to your Find method:
my99Car = cars.Find(byYear(1999));
my65Car = cars.Find(byYear(1965));
You can use this too:
var existData =
cars.Find(
c => c.Year== 1999);