August 27, 2008

Generic List removing duplicates

static List removeDuplicates(List inputList)
{
Dictionary uniqueStore = new Dictionary();
List finalList = new List();

foreach (string currValue in inputList)
{
if (!uniqueStore.ContainsKey(currValue))
{
uniqueStore.Add(currValue, 0);
finalList.Add(currValue);
}
}
return finalList;

}