Swap two items in List<T>

Tony The Lion picture Tony The Lion · Jan 19, 2010 · Viewed 97.2k times · Source

Is there a LINQ way to swap the position of two items inside a list<T>?

Answer

Jan Jongboom picture Jan Jongboom · Jan 19, 2010

Check the answer from Marc from C#: Good/best implementation of Swap method.

public static void Swap<T>(IList<T> list, int indexA, int indexB)
{
    T tmp = list[indexA];
    list[indexA] = list[indexB];
    list[indexB] = tmp;
}

which can be linq-i-fied like

public static IList<T> Swap<T>(this IList<T> list, int indexA, int indexB)
{
    T tmp = list[indexA];
    list[indexA] = list[indexB];
    list[indexB] = tmp;
    return list;
}

var lst = new List<int>() { 8, 3, 2, 4 };
lst = lst.Swap(1, 2);