c# count strings in list with certain length

Question

I'm having a List WordList filled with words:

List<string> WordList = new List<string> { 
  "BED", "CAT", "JUG", "BOAT", "FRUIT", "LABEL", "MOTOR", "SCORE" };

I want to count how many 3, 4 and 5 letter words there are in the list. I can of course loop over all words and check their length, but there must be a better way. Anyone has any ideas on this?

Answer 1

You could group values on length of the string:

var result = WordList.GroupBy(s => s.Length)
                     .Select(x => new {x.Key, Amount = x.Count()});