Foreach loop

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Hi, What does this mean? can you`ll explain me the foreach loop: foreach (ClassData Columns in Col) where Col is arraylist object

Manoj Sevda · Answer

In the foreach-statement, you do not need to specify the loop bounds minimum or maximum, and do not need an 'i' variable as in for-loops. This results in fewer characters to type and code that it is easier to review and verify, with no functionality loss. using System; class Program { static void Main() { // Use a string array to loop over. string[] ferns = { "abcd", "Efgh", "ijklmn", "opqrst" }; // Loop with the foreach keyword. foreach (string value in ferns) { Console.WriteLine(value); } } } For-loop and foreach-loop The code that follows illustrates the exact difference between the two loop constructs. You can see that the for-loop has more complexity in its syntax, but this also gives it more power if you want to modify the collection or examine adjacent elements in the array. using System; class Program { static void Main() { string[] rabbits = { "abcd", "Efgh", "ijklmn", "opqrst" }; for (int i = 0; i { // Assign string reference based on induction variable. string value = rabbits[i]; Console.WriteLine(value); // Write the value. } foreach (var value in rabbits) { Console.WriteLine(value); // Write the value. } } }

Datta Kharad · Answer

Hi You have collection of column names in arraylist and suppose you want pull out column from collection(arraylist) one by one then We use the foreach loop to run through each item, setting the name variable to the item we have reached each time. That way, we have a named variable to output. We declare the name variable to be of the ClassData type - you always need to tell the foreach loop which datatype you are expecting to pull out of the collection. Ex:- Datatype - ClassData Object- Columns Collection- Col Here you can get each column name from arraylist(Col) one by one.

Vulpes · Answer

The line assumes that the Col ArrayList contains nothing but ClassData objects. If it contains anything else, then an exception will probably be thrown. So, assuming that's so, the line means take each element in turn from Col, assign it to a local read-only variable called Columns (which only has meaning in the foreach loop) and then do whatever appears in the body of the foreach statement using that variable. It is equivalent to this for statement: for(int i = 0; i { ClassData Columns = (ClassData)Col[i]; // do something with Columns }

Foreach loop

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