Re: i want C# equivalent Java code

From:
Ian Wilson <scobloke2@infotop.co.uk>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Tue, 09 Jan 2007 10:18:01 +0000
Message-ID:
<q7ednf6kLPFG9j7YRVnyvwA@bt.com>
Arne Vajh?j wrote:

Ian Wilson wrote:

Arne Vajh?j wrote:

Ian Wilson wrote:

Bala wrote:

i have the following code in C# ..
is there any way to convert this code to java.


Yes, I just did it. It took 7 lines of Java.


Not of you follow Java coding convention.


I guess you mean <http://java.sun.com/docs/codeconv/>?

It does as far as I know, the seven lines excludes comments and blank
lines though.


Not counting end brackets and the main program either I assume.


You assume wrongly, seven lines comprise a complete working example that
runs in Eclipse :-)

Well, since you seem so interested, I'll post it here, then you can have
the satisfaction of telling me where I am going wrong :-).

I didn't post it earlier in order to avoid discouraging newbies from
thinking for themselves a little.

Any conversion of C# to Java could be done at many levels, statement by
statement would be one. Producing the same output would be another.
Somewhere in between there are a range of conversions which, to varying
degrees, employ Java idioms or features in place of C# idioms or features.

Recall, in my original post I said ...

"What purpose is served by MyClass that couldn't be better achieved by
using String[] in place of MyClass in MyClient below?"

Well I chose a level of conversion which assumed that there was no real
need for MyClass in order to produce the same output. Maybe MyClass is
unnecessary in C# also but was included for ulterior reasons (e.g. to
demonstrate some aspect of C# programming) in which case my conversion
could be regarded as "incorrect". The OP doesn't provide enough
information to decide.

So, excluding blank lines and comments, here are the 7 lines I came up
with ...
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
class MyClient {
     public static void main(String[] args) {
         String[] mc = {"Rajesh","A3-126","Snehadara","Irla","Mumbai"};
         System.out.printf("%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s",
                 "{0},{1},{2},{3},{4}",mc[0],mc[1],mc[2],mc[3],mc[4]);
     }
}
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

There you are, elementary stuff, nothing clever or surprising. A bit
shorter than the OP's C# original even accounting for the different
conventions for opening brackets.

Note that I did not, and am not, claiming that an equivalent program
couldn't be written in seven or fewer lines in C#. I merely noted that
my conversion produced 7 lines of Java.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------
using System;
using System.Collections;

class MyClass
{
  private string []data = new string[5];
  public string this [int index]
  {
   get
   {
    return data[index];
   }
   set
   {
    data[index] = value;
   }
  }
}

class MyClient
{
  public static void Main()
  {
   MyClass mc = new MyClass();
   mc[0] = "Rajesh";
   mc[1] = "A3-126";
   mc[2] = "Snehadara";
   mc[3] = "Irla";
   mc[4] = "Mumbai";

Console.WriteLine("{0},{1},{2},{3},{4}",mc[0],mc[1],mc[2],mc[3],mc[4]);
  }
}
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