Split a List into smaller lists of N size

Question

I would suggest to use this extension method to chunk the source list to the sub-lists by specified chunk size:

/// <summary>
/// Helper methods for the lists.
/// </summary>
public static class ListExtensions
{
    public static List<List<T>> ChunkBy<T>(this List<T> source, int chunkSize) 
    {
        return source
            .Select((x, i) => new { Index = i, Value = x })
            .GroupBy(x => x.Index / chunkSize)
            .Select(x => x.Select(v => v.Value).ToList())
            .ToList();
    }
}

For example, if you chunk the list of 18 items by 5 items per chunk, it gives you the list of 4 sub-lists with the following items inside: 5-5-5-3.

NOTE: at the upcoming improvements to LINQ in .NET 6 chunking will come out of the box like this:

const int PAGE_SIZE = 5;

IEnumerable<Movie[]> chunks = movies.Chunk(PAGE_SIZE);

public static List<List<float[]>> SplitList(List<float[]> locations, int nSize=30)  
{        
    var list = new List<List<float[]>>(); 

    for (int i = 0; i < locations.Count; i += nSize) 
    { 
        list.Add(locations.GetRange(i, Math.Min(nSize, locations.Count - i))); 
    } 

    return list; 
} 

Generic version:

public static IEnumerable<List<T>> SplitList<T>(List<T> locations, int nSize=30)  
{        
    for (int i = 0; i < locations.Count; i += nSize) 
    { 
        yield return locations.GetRange(i, Math.Min(nSize, locations.Count - i)); 
    }  
} 

how about:

while(locations.Any())
{    
    list.Add(locations.Take(nSize).ToList());
    locations= locations.Skip(nSize).ToList();
}

Library MoreLinq have method called Batch

List<int> ids = new List<int>() { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0 }; // 10 elements
int counter = 1;
foreach(var batch in ids.Batch(2))
{
    foreach(var eachId in batch)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Batch: {0}, Id: {1}", counter, eachId);
    }
    counter++;
}

Result is

Batch: 1, Id: 1
Batch: 1, Id: 2
Batch: 2, Id: 3
Batch: 2, Id: 4
Batch: 3, Id: 5
Batch: 3, Id: 6
Batch: 4, Id: 7
Batch: 4, Id: 8
Batch: 5, Id: 9
Batch: 5, Id: 0

ids are splitted into 5 chunks with 2 elements.