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Retains the elements in the target collection that are contained in the specified collection

  

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using System;
using System.Collections;

namespace Dotnet.Commons.Lang {
    class MainClass{

        /// <summary>
        /// Retains the elements in the target collection that are contained in the specified collection
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="target">Collection where the elements will be removed.</param>
        /// <param name="c">Elements to be retained in the target collection.</param>
        /// <returns>true</returns>
        public static bool RetainAll(System.Collections.ICollection target, System.Collections.ICollection c)
        {
            System.Collections.IEnumerator e = new System.Collections.ArrayList(target).GetEnumerator();
            System.Collections.ArrayList al = new System.Collections.ArrayList(c);

            //Reflection. Invoke "retainAll" method for proprietary classes or "Remove" for each element in the collection
            System.Reflection.MethodInfo method;
            try
            {
                method = c.GetType().GetMethod("retainAll");

                if (method != null)
                    method.Invoke(target, new System.Object[] { c });
                else
                {
                    method = c.GetType().GetMethod("Remove");

                    while (e.MoveNext() == true)
                    {
                        if (al.Contains(e.Current) == false)
                            method.Invoke(target, new System.Object[] { e.Current });
                    }
                }
            }
            catch (System.Exception ex)
            {
                throw ex;
            }

            return true;
        }
   }
}

   
    
  








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