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What is the difference between Enumerable and IEnumerator?

Murali Poola

Murali Poola

Apr 23, 2012
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    IEnumerable is an interface that defines one method GetEnumerator which returns an IEnumeratorinterface, this in turn allows readonly access to a collection. A collection that implements IEnumerable can be used with a foreach statement.

    Definition

    IEnumerable

    public IEnumerator GetEnumerator();

    IEnumerator

    public object Current;
    public void Reset();
    public bool MoveNext();

    The only reason to use IEnumerator is if you have something that has a nonstandard way of enumerating (that is, of returning its various elements one-by-one), and you need to define how that works. You'd create a new class implementing IEnumerator.

    Murali Poola
    April 23, 2012
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    Please refer to the following URL to know the differences between IEnumerable and IEnumerator,http://onlydifferencefaqs.blogspot.in/2012/07/dotnet-programming-concepts-difference.html

    Umar Ali
    September 01, 2012
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