Appending an element to a collection using LINQ

Question

I am trying to process some list with a functional approach in C#.

The idea is that I have a collection of Tuple<T,double> and I want to change the Item 2 of some element T.

The functional way to do so, as data is immutable, is to take the list, filter for all elements where the element is different from the one to change, and the append a new tuple with the new values.

My problem is that I do not know how to append the element at the end. I would like to do:

public List<Tuple<T,double>> Replace(List<Tuple<T,double>> collection, T term,double value)
{
   return collection.Where(x=>!x.Item1.Equals(term)).Append(Tuple.Create(term,value));
}

But there is no Append method. Is there something else?

Answer 1

I believe you are looking for the Concat operator.

It joins two IEnumerable<T> together, so you can create one with a single item to join.

public List<Tuple<T,double>> Replace(List<Tuple<T,double>> collection, T term,double value)
{
   var newItem = new List<Tuple<T,double>>();
   newItem.Add(new Tuple<T,double>(term,value));
   return collection.Where(x=>!x.Item1.Equals(term)).Concat(newItem).ToList();
}