CODEWITHSUNDEEP
c#listprinting
Tahmid Alam
Tahmid Alam

Reputation: 43

Printing the value of list in c#

I am trying to print the value of list. But its just printing the value of of the address.My code looks like this.

class Program 
{
    static void Main(string[] args) 
    {
       Node n = new Node("a", 12);
       Node n1 = new Node("b", 13);

       printNode(n);
       List<Node> a = printNode(n1);

       Console.WriteLine(a.ToString());
       Console.ReadLine();
    }


    public static List<Node> printNode(Node n)
    {
        List<Node> a = new List<Node>();
        a.Add(n);
        return a;
    }
}

My Node class goes like this.

class Node 
{
    public string value;
    public double h;
    public Node parent;

    public Node(string val, double hVal) 
    {
        value = val;
        h = hVal;
    }

    public override string ToString()
    {
        return value;
    }
}

How do I print [a,b] like this?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1283

Answers (1)

Yuval Itzchakov
Yuval Itzchakov

Reputation: 149656

Your code currently doesn't make much sense. You're passing a Node to printNode which actually creates a new list and returns it.

If you simply want to print items in your list, you'll need to iterate that list and print it's values:

Node n = new Node("a", 12);
Node n1 = new Node("b", 13);

List<Node> nodes = new List<Node> { n, n1 };

Console.WriteLine(string.Join(", ", nodes));
Console.ReadLine();

Here, string.Join will iterate your list and join each value with the "," separator.

Upvotes: 3

Related Questions