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Closes #5 - Dictionary to array converter
* Handled null dictionary
* Fixed casting problems
* Added documentation
Also remove rogue Console.Write in LogNotifier
author | IBBoard <dev@ibboard.co.uk> |
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date | Sun, 04 Jan 2009 18:45:32 +0000 |
parents | ba9239164de2 |
children | 6b762694f051 |
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// DictionaryToArrayConverter.cs is a part of the IBBoard utils library (referred to from here as "this program") // // Copyright (C) 2009 IBBoard // // This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify // it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by // the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or // (at your option) any later version. // // This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, // but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of // MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the // GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. // // You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License // along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. // using System; using System.Collections.Generic; namespace IBBoard { public class DictionaryToArrayConverter { /// <summary> /// Takes the set of values in a dictionary and returns them as an array of typed objects. /// </summary> /// <param name="dictionary"> /// A <see cref="Dictionary`2"/> to extract an array of values from /// </param> /// <returns> /// An array of <see cref="VALUE_TYPE"/> objects taken from the Values property of the dictionary, or NULL if the dictionary is NULL /// </returns> public static VALUE_TYPE[] Convert<KEY_TYPE, VALUE_TYPE>(Dictionary<KEY_TYPE, VALUE_TYPE> dictionary) { if (dictionary == null) { return null; } VALUE_TYPE[] col = new VALUE_TYPE[dictionary.Count]; dictionary.Values.CopyTo(col, 0); return col; } } }