Question

Given a list such as this…

string[] fields = new[]
{
     "Value1", 
     "TableStart:Value2", 
     "Value3", 
     "Value4", 
     "TableEnd:Value2", 
     "Value5", 
     "Value6"
};

Is there a way I can retrieve all information between the “TableStart” and “TableEnd” statements without writing a loop? I thought Linq might have some way of achieving this but I could not come up with one.

In the example above I would expect a list containing “Value3” and “Value4”.

Answer 1

Maybe:

var result = fields.SkipWhile(s => !s.Contains("TableStart"))
                   .Skip(1)
                   .TakeWhile(s => !s.Contains("TableEnd"))
                   .ToList();

But i would prefer a simple loop instead.