In Java I can print values of collection just passing collection to output:
Map<Integer, String> map = new HashMap<Integer, String>(){
{
put(1, "one");
put(2, "two");
}
};
System.out.println(map);
Output:
{1=one, 2=two}
In C# similar code would give me info about collection types, instead of values inside, I've been looking for it, but as I understand in C# you have to work around to get output of values from collection. As I understand with C# you can't show values of collection as simple as using Java, am I right ?
When passing an object of any type to - say - Console.WriteLine()
, the ToString()
method of that object is called to convert it to a printable string.
The default implementation of ToString()
returns the type name. Some collections have overridden implementations of ToString()
that return a string containing information like the number of elements in the collection.
But by default there is no such functionality as in your java example.
A simple way to get such an output would be to use string.Join
and some LINQ:
Console.WriteLine("{" + string.Join(", ", map.Select(m => $"{m.Key}={m.Value}")) + "}");
If the elements in your collection already have a proper .ToString()
implementation (like e.g. KeyValuePair<TKey, TValue>
as Michael LY pointed out), you can skip the Select
part:
Console.WriteLine("{" + string.Join(", ", map) + "}");