RemoveDuplicates Generic Method

Wintellect PowerCollections

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Remove consecutive equal items from a collection, yielding another collection. In each run of consecutive equal items in the collection, all items after the first item in the run are removed. A passed IEqualityComparer is used to determine equality.

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

Syntax

C#
public static IEnumerable<T> RemoveDuplicates<T>( IEnumerable<T> collection, IEqualityComparer<T> equalityComparer )

Visual Basic (Declaration)
Public Shared Function RemoveDuplicates(Of T) ( _ collection As IEnumerable(Of T), _ equalityComparer As IEqualityComparer(Of T) _ ) As IEnumerable(Of T)

Visual C++
public: generic<typename T> static IEnumerable<T>^ RemoveDuplicates ( IEnumerable<T>^ collection, IEqualityComparer<T>^ equalityComparer )

Parameters

collection: IEnumerable<(Of <T>)>
The collection to process.

equalityComparer: IEqualityComparer<(Of <T>)>
The IEqualityComparer<T> used to compare items for equality. Only the Equals method will be called.

Return Value

An new collection with the items from collection, in the same order, with consecutive duplicates removed.

Type Parameters

T

Exceptions

Exception	Condition
System..::ArgumentNullException	collection or equalityComparer is null.