List<T>.ForEach(Action<T>) Method
Definition
Performs the specified action on each element of the List<T>.
public:
void ForEach(Action<T> ^ action);
public void ForEach (Action<T> action);
member this.ForEach : Action<'T> -> unit
Public Sub ForEach (action As Action(Of T))
Parameters
Exceptions
action
is null
.
An element in the collection has been modified.
Examples
The following example demonstrates the use of the Action<T> delegate to print the contents of a List<T> object. In this example the Print
method is used to display the contents of the list to the console.
Note
In addition to displaying the contents using the Print
method, the C# example demonstrates the use of anonymous methods to display the results to the console.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
class Program
{
static void Main()
{
List<String> names = new List<String>();
names.Add("Bruce");
names.Add("Alfred");
names.Add("Tim");
names.Add("Richard");
// Display the contents of the list using the Print method.
names.ForEach(Print);
// The following demonstrates the anonymous method feature of C#
// to display the contents of the list to the console.
names.ForEach(delegate(String name)
{
Console.WriteLine(name);
});
}
private static void Print(string s)
{
Console.WriteLine(s);
}
}
/* This code will produce output similar to the following:
* Bruce
* Alfred
* Tim
* Richard
* Bruce
* Alfred
* Tim
* Richard
*/
Imports System.Collections.Generic
Class Program
Shared Sub Main()
Dim names As New List(Of String)
names.Add("Bruce")
names.Add("Alfred")
names.Add("Tim")
names.Add("Richard")
' Display the contents of the list using the Print method.
names.ForEach(AddressOf Print)
End Sub
Shared Sub Print(ByVal s As String)
Console.WriteLine(s)
End Sub
End Class
' This code will produce output similar to the following:
' Bruce
' Alfred
' Tim
' Richard
Remarks
The Action<T> is a delegate to a method that performs an action on the object passed to it. The elements of the current List<T> are individually passed to the Action<T> delegate.
This method is an O(n) operation, where n is Count.
Modifying the underlying collection in the body of the Action<T> delegate is not supported and causes undefined behavior.