MergeSorted Generic Method

Wintellect PowerCollections

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Merge several sorted collections into a single sorted collection. Each input collection must be sorted by the ordering in the passed instance of IComparer<T>. The merging is stable; equal items maintain their ordering, and equal items in different collections are placed in the order of the collections.

Namespace: Wintellect.PowerCollections
Assembly: PowerCollections (in PowerCollections.dll)

Syntax

C#
public static IEnumerable<T> MergeSorted<T>( IComparer<T> comparer, params IEnumerable<T>[] collections )

Visual Basic (Declaration)
Public Shared Function MergeSorted(Of T) ( _ comparer As IComparer(Of T), _ ParamArray collections As IEnumerable(Of T)() _ ) As IEnumerable(Of T)

Visual C++
public: generic<typename T> static IEnumerable<T>^ MergeSorted ( IComparer<T>^ comparer, ... array<IEnumerable<T>^>^ collections )

Parameters

comparer: IComparer<(Of <T>)>
The comparer instance used to sort the list. Only the Compare method is used.

collections: array<IEnumerable<(Of <T>)>>[]()
The set of collections to merge. In many languages, this parameter can be specified as several individual parameters.

Return Value

An IEnumerable<T> that enumerates all the items in all the collections in sorted order.

Type Parameters

T