Question

Is there any way to clean up this type of loop using LINQ?

  List<Car> result;   List<string> makes;   List<string> models;    for (int i = 0; i < makes.Count() && i < models.Count(); i++)   {     result.Add(new Car() { Make = makes[i], Model = models[i] });   } 

Basically I’m looking for some way to collate multiple arrays of individual fields into a single array of objects made up of those fields.

Answer 1

You could use Enumerable.Range, like so:

List<Car> result = Enumerable.Range(0, Math.Min(makes.Count, models.Count))     .Select(i => new Car { Make = makes[i], Model = models[i] }).ToList(); 

If makes and models always contain the same number of items, you can use more compact syntax:

List<Car> result = makes.Select((make, i) => new Car { Make = make, Model = models[i] }).ToList();