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c# - Writing custom IEnumerator<T> with iterators

How can I write a custom IEnumerator<T> implementation which needs to maintain some state and still get to use iterator blocks to simplify it? The best I can come up with is something like this:

public class MyEnumerator<T> : IEnumerator<T> {
    private IEnumerator<T> _enumerator;
    public int Position {get; private set;} // or some other custom properties

    public MyEnumerator() {
        Position = 0;
        _enumerator = MakeEnumerator();
    }

    private IEnumerator<T> MakeEnumerator() {
        // yield return something depending on Position
    } 

    public bool MoveNext() {
        bool res = _enumerator.MoveNext();
        if (res) Position++;
        return res;
    }

    // delegate Reset and Current to _enumerator as well
}

public class MyCollection<T> : IEnumerable<T> {

    IEnumerator<T> IEnumerable<T>.GetEnumerator() {
        return GetEnumerator();
    }

    public MyEnumerator<T> GetEnumerator() {
        return new MyEnumerator<T>();
    }

    ...
}
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Why do you want to write an iterator class? The whole point of an iterator block is so you don't have to...

i.e.

public IEnumerator<T> GetEnumerator() {
    int position = 0; // state
    while(whatever) {
        position++;
        yield return ...something...;
    }
}

If you add more context (i,e, why the above can't work), we can probably help more.

But if possible, avoid writing an iterator class. They are lots of work, and easy to get wrong.

By the way, you don't really have to bother with Reset - it is largely deprecated, and shouldn't really ever be used (since it can't be relied to work for an arbitrary enumerator).

If you want to consume an inner iterator, that is fine too:

int position = 0;
foreach(var item in source) {
   position++;
   yield return position;
}

or if you only have an enumerator:

while(iter.MoveNext()) {
   position++;
   yield return iter.Current;
}

You might also consider adding the state (as a tuple) to the thing you yield:

class MyState<T> {
    public int Position {get;private set;}
    public T Current {get;private set;}
    public MyState(int position, T current) {...} // assign
}
...
yield return new MyState<Foo>(position, item);

Finally, you could use a LINQ-style extension/delegate approach, with an Action<int,T> to supply the position and value to the caller:

    static void Main() {
        var values = new[] { "a", "b", "c" };
        values.ForEach((pos, s) => Console.WriteLine("{0}: {1}", pos, s));            
    }
    static void ForEach<T>(
            this IEnumerable<T> source,
            Action<int, T> action) {
        if (source == null) throw new ArgumentNullException("source");
        if (action == null) throw new ArgumentNullException("action");

        int position = 0;
        foreach (T item in source) {
            action(position++, item);
        }
    }

Outputs:

0: a
1: b
2: c

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