Question

I have a List<Player> that I wish to output ordered to a string, so I am wondering what would be the correct way of doing this and if a simple foreach will always output it ordered already (so far it does from the tests I did) ?

For example:

int position = 0;
foreach (var player in list)
{
    position++;
    Console.Write(position.ToString() + " " + player.Name);
}

Where I could possible later get it like list[X] where X is the player number in the list.

Or are there better ways of doing this ?

Answer 1

A List will output the elements in the order they were added to the list. If you using .net 3.0+ you can execute an .OrderBy(r=> r.Foo) to guarantee the order prior to printing the output. if your going to be incrementing a counter during your loop, I would suggest using a classic for loop as opposed to a foreach

for(int pos =0; pos<list.count; ++pos) {
  Console.Write(pos.ToString() + " " + list[pos].Name);
}