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What's your favorite LINQ to Objects operator which is not built-in? [closed]

Append & Prepend

(These have been added to .NET since this answer was written.)

/// <summary>Adds a single element to the end of an IEnumerable.</summary>
/// <typeparam name="T">Type of enumerable to return.</typeparam>
/// <returns>IEnumerable containing all the input elements, followed by the
/// specified additional element.</returns>
public static IEnumerable<T> Append<T>(this IEnumerable<T> source, T element)
{
    if (source == null)
        throw new ArgumentNullException("source");
    return concatIterator(element, source, false);
}

/// <summary>Adds a single element to the start of an IEnumerable.</summary>
/// <typeparam name="T">Type of enumerable to return.</typeparam>
/// <returns>IEnumerable containing the specified additional element, followed by
/// all the input elements.</returns>
public static IEnumerable<T> Prepend<T>(this IEnumerable<T> tail, T head)
{
    if (tail == null)
        throw new ArgumentNullException("tail");
    return concatIterator(head, tail, true);
}

private static IEnumerable<T> concatIterator<T>(T extraElement,
    IEnumerable<T> source, bool insertAtStart)
{
    if (insertAtStart)
        yield return extraElement;
    foreach (var e in source)
        yield return e;
    if (!insertAtStart)
        yield return extraElement;
}

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the MoreLINQ project yet. It was started by Jon Skeet and has gained some developers along the way. From the project's page:

LINQ to Objects is missing a few desirable features.

This project will enhance LINQ to Objects with extra methods, in a manner which keeps to the spirit of LINQ.

Take a look at the Operators Overview wiki page for a list of implemented operators.

It is certainly a good way to learn from some clean and elegant source code.


Each

Nothing for the purists, but darn it's useful!

 public static void Each<T>(this IEnumerable<T> items, Action<T> action)
 {
   foreach (var i in items)
      action(i);
 }

ToQueue & ToStack

/// <summary>Creates a <see cref="Queue&lt;T&gt;"/> from an enumerable
/// collection.</summary>
public static Queue<T> ToQueue<T>(this IEnumerable<T> source)
{
    if (source == null)
        throw new ArgumentNullException("source");
    return new Queue<T>(source);
}

/// <summary>Creates a <see cref="Stack&lt;T&gt;"/> from an enumerable
/// collection.</summary>
public static Stack<T> ToStack<T>(this IEnumerable<T> source)
{
    if (source == null)
        throw new ArgumentNullException("source");
    return new Stack<T>(source);
}

IsEmpty

public static bool IsEmpty<T>(this IEnumerable<T> source)
{
    return !source.Any();
}

In and NotIn

C# equivalents of two other well-known SQL constructs

/// <summary>
/// Determines if the source value is contained in the list of possible values.
/// </summary>
/// <typeparam name="T">The type of the objects</typeparam>
/// <param name="value">The source value</param>
/// <param name="values">The list of possible values</param>
/// <returns>
///     <c>true</c> if the source value matches at least one of the possible values; otherwise, <c>false</c>.
/// </returns>
public static bool In<T>(this T value, params T[] values)
{
    if (values == null)
        return false;

    if (values.Contains<T>(value))
        return true;

    return false;
}

/// <summary>
/// Determines if the source value is contained in the list of possible values.
/// </summary>
/// <typeparam name="T">The type of the objects</typeparam>
/// <param name="value">The source value</param>
/// <param name="values">The list of possible values</param>
/// <returns>
///     <c>true</c> if the source value matches at least one of the possible values; otherwise, <c>false</c>.
/// </returns>
public static bool In<T>(this T value, IEnumerable<T> values)
{
    if (values == null)
        return false;

    if (values.Contains<T>(value))
        return true;

    return false;
}

/// <summary>
/// Determines if the source value is not contained in the list of possible values.
/// </summary>
/// <typeparam name="T">The type of the objects</typeparam>
/// <param name="value">The source value</param>
/// <param name="values">The list of possible values</param>
/// <returns>
///     <c>false</c> if the source value matches at least one of the possible values; otherwise, <c>true</c>.
/// </returns>
public static bool NotIn<T>(this T value, params T[] values)
{
    return In(value, values) == false;
}

/// <summary>
/// Determines if the source value is not contained in the list of possible values.
/// </summary>
/// <typeparam name="T">The type of the objects</typeparam>
/// <param name="value">The source value</param>
/// <param name="values">The list of possible values</param>
/// <returns>
///     <c>false</c> if the source value matches at least one of the possible values; otherwise, <c>true</c>.
/// </returns>
public static bool NotIn<T>(this T value, IEnumerable<T> values)
{
    return In(value, values) == false;
}

AsIEnumerable

/// <summary>
/// Returns a sequence containing one element.
/// </summary>
public static IEnumerable<T> AsIEnumerable<T>(this T obj)
{
    yield return obj;
}  

Usage:

var nums = new[] {12, 20, 6};
var numsWith5Prepended = 5.AsIEnumerable().Concat(nums);