Method for printing collections.
So .NET Interactive has a
display function (https://github.com/dotnet/interactive/blob/main/docs/display-output-csharp.md) that allows to nicely print collections and even iterators in Notebooks. So I wonder, is it possible to access this method in a normal C# project to print collections to stdout.GitHub
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Okay, Maybe there is some kind of alternative that can be used for this? Some nuget package?
Just... make your own method to do this 🙂
seems a little overkill to get a nuget package for it
string.join is your friend~
I will have to write a method to handle EVERY collection in stdlib, nested collections, etc.
I mean, it's possible but why reinventing wheels?
Write one for IEnumerable?
IEnumerable<IEnumerable<IEnumerable<char>>>
if item is IEnumerable -> Call recursively.
call recursively if it's nested?
yeah
I don't recommend complex approaches with funky dependencies, but in your case, if you are looking to display any variety of collection or object graphs, this is well-known feature of LinqPad
Dump() that is so popular people ask to incorporate it into Visual Studio or c# projects. Since LinqPad comes with a standalone executable, it's an option, albeit somewhat convoluted: https://stackoverflow.com/a/73541726/458354Stack Overflow
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You can use these methods in a normal .NET project.
@Кён Кёныч, more details here: https://github.com/dotnet/interactive/blob/main/docs/formatting.md
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The
Display methods do two things. They call a formatter and get back one or more strings (for different MIME type representations of the object being formatted) and then they emit an event containing those formatted values.
In a normal .NET project you're probably not using a kernel or listening to the events, but doing step 1 is simple. It's just up to you to figure out how to display that value.
The simplest example looks like this: