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Pattern Matching Mastery in C# 11 & 12: List Patterns & Property Patterns [Discussion #2]

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5y ago · Feb 22, 2021 8:45 PM

C# 11 introduced list patterns and slice patterns! Here is how you can parse command arguments or byte sequences elegantly with pattern matching.

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5y ago · Feb 22, 2021 11:56 PM

List patterns like if (args is ["move", var x, var y]) make parsing input commands read like plain English instead of index checking!

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5y ago · Feb 24, 2021 3:56 AM

Combined with switch expressions and relational patterns (e.g. >= 0 and <= 100), pattern matching makes complex state machines super concise.

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