LINQ: How to skip one then take the rest of a sequence

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Marcel picture Marcel · Mar 12, 2010 · Viewed 42.8k times · Source

i would like to iterate over the items of a List<T>, except the first, preserving the order. Is there an elegant way to do it with LINQ using a statement like:

foreach (var item in list.Skip(1).TakeTheRest()) {....

I played around with TakeWhile , but was not successful. Probably there is also another, simple way of doing it?

Answer

Mark Byers picture Mark Byers · Mar 12, 2010

From the documentation for Skip:

Bypasses a specified number of elements in a sequence and then returns the remaining elements.

So you just need this:

foreach (var item in list.Skip(1))

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