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.NET 4.0 Generics Beginner's Guide
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.NET 4.0 Generics Beginner's Guide

by Sudipta Mukherjee
January 2012
Intermediate to advanced
396 pages
8h 16m
English
Packt Publishing
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Designing a generic anagram finder

Generics are not limited to lists and you can even mix parameterized types with specialized types as well. For instance, what if you want to store the frequency of occurrence of a string, number, or a symbol. While the type of what you keep the frequency of is unknown or undecided, however you see that the frequency itself is always a number. Let's take a look at how we can implement that using anagrams as an example.

Anagrams are as fascinating as palindromes. Two sequences are said to be anagrams of each another, when they share the same number of elements in the same frequency.

For example, two strings "The eyes" and "They see" both have the same number of characters, and the frequency of each character in these ...

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