"for loop" for ValueCollection

Question

Is there a way to iterate ValueCollection using straight for loop? (not foreach)

e.g.

Dictionary<string, List<long>>.ValueCollection somevalues = somecollection.Value.Values;

for(int i = 0; i< somevalues.Count; i++)
{
 //now what?
}

Answer 1

No - there's no indexer or anything similar for ValueCollection. I suppose you could use:

for (int i = 0; i < someValues.Count; i++)
{
    var item = someValues.ElementAt(i);
    ...
}

but that would perform like a dog :) (Just iteration would be O(n^2), as it would be like Schlemiel the Painter.)

Why do you want to do this? If you want items with elements, just keep a counter or use the overload of Select that passes in the index as well as the item.