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Counting a Non-Generic IEnumerable

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source link: https://www.stevefenton.co.uk/2021/06/counting-a-non-generic-ienumerable/
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Counting a Non-Generic IEnumerable

You rarely come across them in 2021, but there is such a thing as a non-generic IEnumerable. They exist in System.Collections rather than System.Collections.Generic. Since .NET 2 pretty much everyone is full-on using generics as they are the best thing since curly-braces… but occasionally you find one and even more rarely you need to count it.

Now, you can’t just use System.Linq to count an IEnumerable because Linq works on your generics. However, Linq is a useful starting point because it’s basically a whole bunch of cool extension methods. We can create our own extension method to add Count() to an IEnumerable, such as the SelectedItems in a MultiSelectList.

Here’s the extension that does it, including a helper that allows us to dispose of the enumerator if it is disposable.

public static class EnumerableExtensions
{
    public static int Count(this IEnumerable source)
    {
        if (source is ICollection collection)
        {
            return collection.Count;
        }

        int count = 0;
        var enumerator = source.GetEnumerator();

        DynamicUsing(enumerator, () =>
        {
            while (enumerator.MoveNext())
            {
                count++;
            }
        });

        return count;
    }

    public static void DynamicUsing(object resource, Action action)
    {
        try
        {
            action();
        }
        finally
        {
            if (resource is IDisposable disposable)
            {
                disposable.Dispose();
            }
        }
    }
}

To use this code, we just call it on our IEnumerable, like this…

int count = multiSelectList.SelectedItems.Count();

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