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What is an iterator in c#?


Asked by Vivian Meyers on Dec 05, 2021 C#



An iterator, in the context of C#, is a block of code that returns an ordered sequence of values of a collection or array.
Consequently,
Key Differences Between Iterator and Enumeration in Java The main difference between Iterator and Enumeration is that Iterator is a universal cursor, can be used for iterating any collection object. ... Enumeration object has only read-only access to the elements in the collection. ... There are two methods of iterator one to check the status of collection and one to retrieve the elements from the collection. ... More items...
Keeping this in consideration, In Java, Iterator is an interface available in Collection framework in java.util package. It is a Java Cursor used to iterate a collection of objects. It is used to traverse a collection object elements one by one. It is available since Java 1.2 Collection Framework. It is applicable for all Collection classes.
Also,
Iterators in Scala. An iterator is a way to access elements of a collection one-by-one. It resembles to a collection in terms of syntax but works differently in terms of functionality. An iterator defined for any collection does not load the entire collection into the memory but loads elements one after the other.
Likewise,
There is a lot of overhead in building an iterator in Python; we have to implement a class with __iter__ () and __next__ () method, keep track of internal states, raise StopIteration when there was no values to be returned etc. This is both lengthy and counter intuitive. Generator comes into rescue in such situations.