SetIntersection Generic Method

Wintellect PowerCollections

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Computes the set-theoretic intersection of two collections. The intersection of two sets is all items that appear in both of the sets. If an item appears X times in one set, and Y times in the other set, the intersection contains the item Minimum(X,Y) times. The source collections are not changed. A new collection is created with the intersection of the collections; the order of the items in this collection is undefined.

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

Syntax

C#
public static IEnumerable<T> SetIntersection<T>( IEnumerable<T> collection1, IEnumerable<T> collection2 )

Visual Basic (Declaration)
Public Shared Function SetIntersection(Of T) ( _ collection1 As IEnumerable(Of T), _ collection2 As IEnumerable(Of T) _ ) As IEnumerable(Of T)

Visual C++
public: generic<typename T> static IEnumerable<T>^ SetIntersection ( IEnumerable<T>^ collection1, IEnumerable<T>^ collection2 )

Parameters

collection1: IEnumerable<(Of <T>)>
The first collection to intersect.

collection2: IEnumerable<(Of <T>)>
The second collection to intersect.

Return Value

The intersection of the two collections, considered as sets.

Type Parameters

T

Remarks

When equal items appear in both collections, the returned collection will include an arbitrary choice of one of the two equal items.

The default sense of equality for T is used, as defined by T's implementation of IComparable<T>.Equals or object.Equals.

If both collections are Set, Bag, OrderedSet, or OrderedBag collections, it is more efficient to use the Intersection or IntersectionWith methods on that class.

Exceptions

Exception	Condition
System..::ArgumentNullException	collection1 or collection2 is null.