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Learn C# in 7 days

You're reading from   Learn C# in 7 days Get up and running with C# 7 with async main, tuples, pattern matching, LINQ, regex, indexers, and more

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787287044
Length 306 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Day 01 - Overview of the .NET Framework FREE CHAPTER 2. Day 02 - Getting Started with C# 3. Day 03 - What's New in C# 4. Day 04 - Discussing C# Class Members 5. Day 05 - Overview of Reflection and Collections 6. Day 06 - Deep Dive with Advanced Concepts 7. Day 07 - Understanding Object-Oriented Programming with C# 8. Day 08 - Test Your Skills – Build a Real-World Application

Pattern matching

In a general way, pattern matching is a way to compare contents in predefined formats in an expression. The format is nothing but a combination of different matches.

In C# 7.0, pattern matching is a feature. With the use of this feature, we can implement method dispatch on properties other than the type of an object.

Pattern matching supports various expressions; let's discuss these with code-examples.

Patterns can be constant patterns: Type patterns or Var patterns.

is expression

The is expression enables the inspection of an object and its properties and determines whether it satisfies the pattern:

public static string MatchingPatterUsingIs(object character) 
{ 
   if (character is null) 
   return...
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