Question

I’m trying to understand enumerators using following example

public class Garage : IEnumerable
{
    private Car[] cars = new Car[4];
    public Garage()
    {
        cars[0] = new Car() { Id = Guid.NewGuid(), Name = "Mazda 3", CurrentSpeed = 90 };
        cars[1] = new Car() { Id = Guid.NewGuid(), Name = "Mazda 6", CurrentSpeed = 80 };
    }

    public IEnumerator GetEnumerator()
    {
        // return the array object's IEnumerator
        return cars.GetEnumerator();
    }
}

static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        IEnumerator i = cars.GetEnumerator();
        i.MoveNext();
        Car myCar = (Car)i.Current;
        Console.WriteLine("{0} is going {1} km/h", myCar.Name, myCar.CurrentSpeed);
        Console.ReadLine();

    }

How can I display on console second car without looping using foreach?

Answer 1

foreach (Car myCar in cars)
{
    Console.WriteLine("{0} is going {1} km/h", myCar.Name, myCar.CurrentSpeed);
}

expands approximately to

IEnumerator i = cars.GetEnumerator();
while (i.MoveNext())
{
    Car myCar = (Car)i.Current;
    Console.WriteLine("{0} is going {1} km/h", myCar.Name, myCar.CurrentSpeed);
}

(In reality, the expansion of the foreach statement performed by the C# compiler is a bit more complicated; see The foreach statement.)