Question

I have a generic class defined like this

class MyGenericClass<T> where T : ICompareable
{
  T[] data;

  public AddData(T[] values)
  {
     data = values;
  }
}

In mainForm, I create 3 random numbers, and add them as values, lets say 1, 2 and 3. So my T[] data; will look like this: [0]1 [1]2 [2]3

What I want to do is to remove 1 of these values from the array, how do I do that when I’m using generics. Lets say I want to remove 3 from the array so it would look like this[0]1 [1]2

Answer 1

Change your class to look like this (I also implemented Frederik’s suggestion of using a List instead of a array.

class MyGenericClass<T> where T : ICompareable
{
  List<T> data;

  public AddData(T value)
  {
     data.Add(value);
  }
  public RemoveData(T value)
  {
     data.Remove(value);
  }
}

If for some reasaon, you insist on using an array, the remove method may look something like this

public RemoveData(T value)
{
  data = data.Where( e => e.CompareTo(value) != 0).ToArray();
}