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Populating a list of integers in .NET

Is there a simpler or more elegant way of initializing a list of integers in C# other than this?

List<int> numberList = new List<int>() { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 };

or

for(int i = 1; i <= 10; i++)
{
    numberList.Add(i);
}

It just doesn’t seem very practical – especially if the list was to contain a large number of values. Would a loop be a more practical solution?

Thanks,

CC

Answer 1

You can take advantage of the Enumerable.Range() method:

var numberList = Enumerable.Range(1, 10).ToList();

The first parameter is the integer to start at and the second parameter is how many sequential integers to include.