When use "yield" keyword in C# ?

Question

Hi Guys, Response here with a concise example. Thanks.

Vulpes · Answer

Notice that as well as 'yield return', there's also a 'yield break' statement which ends the iteration completely.

Jignesh Trivedi · Answer

hi, The basic idea of yield is to return from the middle of an iterator and keep comming back into that loop on subsequent loop. Please refer http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/9k7k7cf0(v=vs.80).aspx http://www.dotnetperls.com/yield hope this will help you.

Raj Kumar · Answer

The yield keyword actually does quite a lot here. The function returns an object that implements the IEnumerable interface. If a calling function starts foreach-ing over this object the function is called again until it "yields". This is syntactic sugar introduced in C# 2.0. In earlier versions you had to create your own IEnumerable and IEnumerator objects to do stuff like this. The easiest way understand code like this is to type in an example, set some breakpoints and see what happens. Try stepping through this for example: public void Consumer() { foreach(int i in Integers()) { Console.WriteLine(i.ToString()); } } public IEnumerable Integers() { yield return 1; yield return 2; yield return 4; yield return 8; yield return 16; yield return 16777216; }