Removes all the elements from the target collection that are contained in the source collection. : ICollection « Collections Data Structure « C# / C Sharp

1. C# / C Sharp
2. Collections Data Structure
3. ICollection

Removes all the elements from the target collection that are contained in the source collection.

  

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using System;
using System.Collections;

namespace Dotnet.Commons.Lang
{
    class MainClass
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Converts an ICollection instance to an ArrayList instance.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="c">The ICollection instance to be converted.</param>
        /// <returns>An ArrayList instance in which its elements are the elements of the ICollection instance.</returns>
        public static System.Collections.ArrayList ToArrayList(System.Collections.ICollection c)
        {
            System.Collections.ArrayList tempArrayList = new System.Collections.ArrayList();
            System.Collections.IEnumerator tempEnumerator = c.GetEnumerator();
            while (tempEnumerator.MoveNext())
                tempArrayList.Add(tempEnumerator.Current);
            return tempArrayList;
        }
        /// <summary>
        /// Removes all the elements from the specified collection that are contained in the target collection.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="target">Collection where the elements will be removed.</param>
        /// <param name="c">Elements to remove from the target collection.</param>
        /// <returns>true</returns>
        public static bool RemoveAll(System.Collections.ICollection target, System.Collections.ICollection c)
        {
            System.Collections.ArrayList al = ToArrayList(c);
            System.Collections.IEnumerator e = al.GetEnumerator();

            //Reflection. Invoke "removeAll" method for proprietary classes or "Remove" for each element in the collection
            System.Reflection.MethodInfo method;
            try
            {
                method = target.GetType().GetMethod("removeAll");

                if (method != null)
                    method.Invoke(target, new System.Object[] { al });
                else
                {
                    method = target.GetType().GetMethod("Remove");
                    System.Reflection.MethodInfo methodContains = target.GetType().GetMethod("Contains");

                    while (e.MoveNext() == true)
                    {
                        while ((bool)methodContains.Invoke(target, new System.Object[] { e.Current }) == true)
                            method.Invoke(target, new System.Object[] { e.Current });
                    }
                }
            }
            catch (System.Exception ex)
            {
                throw ex;
            }
            return true;
        }
    }
}

   
    
  

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