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Hello this below work but it isn't what I'd like; GetNumber() return an Enumerable and at the moment I'd like that it return an IEnumerator ... Can I have an help please? class Number { List number; Number (){number=new List (); } public void insert(int n) { number.Add(n); } public static IEnumerable int > GetNumber() { IEnumerator ir = number.GetEnumerator(); for (; ir.MoveNext(); ){ if (ir.Current.isPair() ) yield return ir.Current; } } } class Program { static void Main( string [] args) { Number n = new Number(); n.insert (10); n.insert (20); .....30 40...50 foreach ( int i in GetNumber() ) Console .WriteLine( Number {0}  i); } }

Alan · Answer

So you only want to iterate through those integers which are more than twice as big as the argument to the GetNumber method. The best I can come up with is this: using System; using System.Collections; using System.Collections.Generic; class Number : IEnumerable { List number; public Number() { number = new List (); } private Number(List list) { number = list; } public void insert(int n){ number.Add(n); } public IEnumerator GetEnumerator() { return new NumberEnumerator(number); } public Number GetNumber(int num) { List temp = new List (); foreach (int i in number) { if (i > num * 2) temp.Add(i); } return new Number(temp); } } class NumberEnumerator : IEnumerator { List number; int position = -1; public NumberEnumerator(List number) { this.number = number; } public bool MoveNext() { position++; return (position } public void Reset() { position = -1; } public object Current { get { try { return number[position]; } catch (IndexOutOfRangeException) { throw new InvalidOperationException(); } } } } class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { Number n = new Number(); foreach (int i in n.GetNumber(10)) Console.WriteLine(Number {0} i); } }

Marco · Answer

it seems ok. But isPair() computes something. So in this way where do I have to compute number.isPair(); so I have to pass number to that method: where there was isPair() change to this: public static IEnumerable int > GetNumber(int num) { IEnumerator ir = number.GetEnumerator(); for (; ir.MoveNext(); ){ if (ir.Current> num *2 ) yield return ir.Current; } } } Are you understand? here above I just find the change returned value into IEnumerator.... Having to check  if (ir.Current> num *2 ) how can I change your implementation (in a way that after I'll can call the usual number.Movenext() too... thanks

Alan · Answer

I'm not entirely sure what you're doing here as I can't see a defintion of isPair() anywhere. However ignoring that for the moment this is the sort of pattern you need to return an IEnumerator for the Number class which just iterates through the list of integers: using System; using System.Collections; using System.Collections.Generic; class Number : IEnumerable { List number; public Number() { number=new List (); } public void insert(int n){ number.Add(n); } public IEnumerator GetEnumerator() { return new NumberEnumerator(number); } } class NumberEnumerator : IEnumerator { List number; int position = -1; public NumberEnumerator(List number) { this.number = number; } public bool MoveNext() { position++; return (position } public void Reset() { position = -1; } public object Current { get { try { return number[position]; } catch (IndexOutOfRangeException) { throw new InvalidOperationException(); } } } } class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { Number n = new Number(); for (int i = 10; i { n.insert (i); } foreach (int i in n) Console.WriteLine(Number {0} i); } }