MetadataStringComparer Struct

Definition

Provides string comparison helpers to query strings in metadata while avoiding allocation if possible.

public value class MetadataStringComparer
public struct MetadataStringComparer
public readonly struct MetadataStringComparer
type MetadataStringComparer = struct
Public Structure MetadataStringComparer
Inheritance
MetadataStringComparer

Remarks

No allocation is performed unless both the handle argument and the value argument contain non-ASCII text.

Obtain instances using StringComparer. A default-initialized instance is useless and behaves as a null reference.

The code is optimized so that there is no additional overhead in re-obtaining a comparer over assigning it to a local. That is to say that a construct like:

if (reader.StringComparer.Equals(typeDef.Namespace, "System") && reader.StringComparer.Equals(typeDef.Name, "Object")
{
    /* found System.Object */
}

is no less efficient than:

var comparer = reader.StringComparer;
if (comparer.Equals(typeDef.Namespace, "System") && comparer.Equals(typeDef.Name, "Object") 
{ 
    /* found System.Object */
}

The choice between them is therefore one of style and not performance.

Methods

Equals(DocumentNameBlobHandle, String)
Equals(DocumentNameBlobHandle, String, Boolean)
Equals(NamespaceDefinitionHandle, String)
Equals(NamespaceDefinitionHandle, String, Boolean)
Equals(StringHandle, String)
Equals(StringHandle, String, Boolean)
StartsWith(StringHandle, String)
StartsWith(StringHandle, String, Boolean)

Applies to