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Johannes Jacobs
Johannes Jacobs

Reputation: 63

C# Lambda-Select with conditions

I created a Command-class which has two important members.

public class Command
{
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public CommandExecutedCallback Callback { get; set; }
    public delegate void CommandExecutedCallback(Command command);
}

I save multiple objects of this class in a List<Command>.

Another class CommandProcessor has a member function GetCallbacks(string name).

I want to use a lambda expression to get an array of CommandExecutedCallback-delegates with the condition that the name matches.

I can get all Callbacks with: return commandList.Select(t => t.Callback).ToArray().

How can i insert the condition to get only commands with the specified name?

Thank you in advance.

Upvotes: 6

Views: 25087

Answers (3)

Luis Tellez
Luis Tellez

Reputation: 2983

You need to use the WHERE not the SELECT. With Select you tell what you wnat from the list, and with WHERE you filter the list to show.

return commandList.Where(t => t.Name == "VALUE").Select(t => t.Callback)

Upvotes: 0

Jason Watkins
Jason Watkins

Reputation: 3785

You need to a add a Where condition:

return commandList.Where(t => t.Name == name).Select(t => t.Callback);

You should also avoid calling ToArray unless you really need to. Unless you're specifically passing this data to some other method that requires an array, copying all of the data with ToArray is probably an unnecessary (and rather expensive) operation.

Upvotes: 11

DLeh
DLeh

Reputation: 24395

Is this what you mean?

return commandList
    .Where(t => t.Name == "someName")
    .Select(t => t.Callback)
    .ToArray();

Upvotes: 2

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