Question

What I would like to do is use the elegance of LINQ while maintaining an iterator….

essentially

Class A {   int Position;   string Name; } 

if I have a list of strings, i want to project them into List<A> but have the Position be populated in the projection…

List<string> names; //filled with strings 

something like

List<A> foo = (from s in names select s).ToList(); 

but have it also iterate over and populate Position..

is this possible?

{{Position:0,Name: 'name1'},{Position:1, Name: 'name2'}, {Position:2, Name: 'name3'}....} 

Answer 1

You can do this:

    var listOfStrings = new List<string> {'name1', 'name2', 'name3', 'name4'};     var foo = listOfStrings.Select((value, position) => new {position, value}).ToList(); 

Position will be incremented as a 0-starting index, check the Select Method overload.