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Thursday, July 12, 2007

The annoying way to .clone() a list in C#

List<Type> temp = list.ConvertAll<Type>(delegate(Type a){return a;});

You'd think a generic type like List would have a useful clone or copy method, but noo. (Type is just a placeholder... insert your type here)

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Arif Eqbal wrote:

It Does not actually Clone??
It Copies, If you change a value for the list the temp objects member also changes.

∴ Arif Eqbal | 22-Aug-2007 7:29am est | #10270

Keith (http://keithdevens.com/) wrote:

Yeah, it's just a shallow copy.

∴ Keith | 22-Aug-2007 9:25am est | http://keithdevens.com/ | #10271

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