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From: "Sven R. Kunze" <srkunze@mail.de>
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Subject: Re: [OT] C# -- sharp or carp? was Re: Learning Python (or Haskell) makes you a worse programmer
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 17:41:34 +0200
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On 29.03.2016 12:18, Sven R. Kunze wrote:
> On 29.03.2016 11:39, Peter Otten wrote:
>> My question to those who know a bit of C#: what is the state-of-the-art
>> equivalent to
>>
>> "\n".join(foo.description() for foo in mylist
>>                           if foo.description() != "")
>>
>
> Using LINQ, I suppose: 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_Integrated_Query

Friend of mine told me something like this:

String.Join("\n", mylist.Where(foo => 
!String.IsNullOrEmpty(foo.description)).Select(foo => foo.description))

[untested, but from what I know of quite correct]

Best,
Sven