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I am demoing a Console Application to try out the Yield Keyword. This is my code.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;

namespace YieldKeyword
{
    class Program
    {
        static List<int> MyList = new List<int>();

        static void FillValues()
        {
            MyList.Add(1);
            MyList.Add(2);
            MyList.Add(3);
            MyList.Add(4);
            MyList.Add(5);
        }
        static IEnumerable<int> FilterWithoutYield()
        {
            List<int> temp = new List<int>();
            foreach (int i in MyList)
            {
                if (i > 3)
                {
                    temp.Add(i);
                }
            }
            return temp;
        }
        static IEnumerable<int> FilterWithYield()
        {
            foreach (int i in MyList)
            {
                if (i > 3) yield return i;
            }
        } 
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            FillValues();
            //IEnumerable<int> temp = new List<int>();
            //temp = FilterWithoutYield();
            FilterWithYield();
            foreach (int i in MyList)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(i);
            }
            Console.ReadLine();
        }
    }
}



However, the control never passes to the
FilterWithYield
method. Why is this happening ? What am I doing wrong ?
Posted

1 solution

You're not doing anything with the values returned from FilterWithYield so it's optimized out.

Change
C#
FilterWithYield();
foreach (int i in MyList)
{
  Console.WriteLine(i);
}

to
C#
foreach (int i in FilterWithYield())
{
  Console.WriteLine(i);
}

And you should see the method being hit.

Hope this helps,
Fredrik
 
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