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Everyday data structures

You're reading from   Everyday data structures A practical guide to learning data structures simply and easily

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787121041
Length 344 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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William Smith William Smith
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Preface 1. Data Types: Foundational Structures FREE CHAPTER 2. Arrays: Foundational Collections 3. Lists: Linear Collections 4. Stacks: LIFO Collections 5. Queues: FIFO Collections 6. Dictionaries: Keyed Collections 7. Sets: No Duplicates 8. Structs: Complex Types 9. Trees: Non-Linear Structures 10. Heaps: Ordered Trees 11. Graphs: Values with Relationships 12. Sorting: Bringing Order Out Of Chaos 13. Searching: Finding What You Need

Initializing sets


Sets are not terribly commonplace in development, but each of the languages we are examining supports data structures with some form of concrete implementations. Here are some examples of initializing a set, adding a few values to the collection including one duplicate, and printing the set's count to the console after each step.

C#

C# provides a concrete implementation of the set data structure through the HashSet<T> class. Since this class is generic, the caller may define the type used for elements. For example, the following example initializes a new set where the elements will be string types:

    HashSet<string, int> mySet = new HashSet<string>(); 
    mySet.Add("green");  
    Console.WriteLine("{0}", mySet.Count); 
    mySet.Add("yellow");  
    Console.WriteLine("{0}", mySet.Count); 
    mySet.Add("red");  
    Console.WriteLine("{0}", mySet.Count); 
    mySet.Add("red");  
    Console.WriteLine("{0}", mySet...
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