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Ken picture Ken · Feb 6, 2009 · Viewed 208.3k times · Source

Is there a C# equivalent of Python's enumerate() and Ruby's each_with_index?

Answer

Dan picture Dan · Feb 6, 2009

I keep this extension method around for this:

public static void Each<T>(this IEnumerable<T> ie, Action<T, int> action)
{
    var i = 0;
    foreach (var e in ie) action(e, i++);
}

And use it like so:

var strings = new List<string>();
strings.Each((str, n) =>
{
    // hooray
});

Or to allow for break-like behaviour:

public static bool Each<T>(this IEnumerable<T> ie, Func<T, int, bool> action)
{
    int i = 0;
    foreach (T e in ie) if (!action(e, i++)) return false;
    return true;
}

var strings = new List<string>() { "a", "b", "c" };

bool iteratedAll = strings.Each ((str, n)) =>
{
    if (str == "b") return false;
    return true;
});

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