Question

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I have 2 Dictionary objects d1 and d2. They are created separately at beginning, and contents are added to them separately. After some processing, I want to do following things:

• Make d1 reference d2;
• Make d2 reference to a new object.

I am C# beginner and only find below way to do this job:

d1 = new Dictionary<int, int>(d2);
d2 = new Dictionary<int, int>();

Can I do it more efficiently like C++ way, like below? Pseudo code:

d1 = d2;
d2 = new Dictionary<int, int>();

Thanks.

Answer 1

d1 = d2;
d2 = new Dictionary<int, int>();

This will in fact do the job. I don’t see why this would not work. Dictionaries are reference types, so you won’t copy them but just re-assign the reference if you do the above (exactly what you want to do).

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/490f96s2.aspx