Does calling Clear disposes the items also?

Question

Many times there is a clear method, that removes all the items from the collections, are these items disposed also.

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Answer 1

Calling Clear doesn't dispose the items, but it removes the reference from the collection to the items. If that was the only reference to the items they will be garbage collected automatically at some point (which you can't predict, but you may control using the GC class).