Recursive lambda expression to traverse a tree in C#

Joel Cunningham picture Joel Cunningham · Sep 14, 2008 · Viewed 31.8k times · Source

Can someone show me how to implement a recursive lambda expression to traverse a tree structure in C#.

Answer

aku picture aku · Sep 14, 2008

Ok, I found some free time finally.
Here we go:

class TreeNode
{
    public string Value { get; set;}
    public List<TreeNode> Nodes { get; set;}


    public TreeNode()
    {
        Nodes = new List<TreeNode>();
    }
}

Action<TreeNode> traverse = null;

traverse = (n) => { Console.WriteLine(n.Value); n.Nodes.ForEach(traverse);};

var root = new TreeNode { Value = "Root" };
root.Nodes.Add(new TreeNode { Value = "ChildA"} );
root.Nodes[0].Nodes.Add(new TreeNode { Value = "ChildA1" });
root.Nodes[0].Nodes.Add(new TreeNode { Value = "ChildA2" });
root.Nodes.Add(new TreeNode { Value = "ChildB"} );
root.Nodes[1].Nodes.Add(new TreeNode { Value = "ChildB1" });
root.Nodes[1].Nodes.Add(new TreeNode { Value = "ChildB2" });

traverse(root);