Question

I have the following struct:

struct entry
{
    public string msg;
    public UInt32 ts;
    public bool newLines;

    public entry(string message, UInt32 timestamp, bool lines = false)
    {
        msg = message;
        ts = timestamp;
        newLines = false;
    }

    public override string ToString()
    {
        return msg + (newLines ? "\n" : "");
    }
};

I am using a List of these structs in my program, in some parts of the program I need to take the list of these entry’s, and combine them back into a long string separated by newlines. My question is is my ToString() method going to work with a List<entry>? Or do I need to override another function?

Thanks

Answer 1

You would need to make a custom class that inherits List like this:

public class EntryList : List<entry>
{
   public override string ToString()
   {
      //return what you want
      //EDIT:  accessing items
      foreach (entry e in this)
         //...
   }
}