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aman
aman

Reputation: 6242

c# Linq: Replace empty string with some value

I have a list as:

var myList = lookuplist;

//where lookupList
       Count = 2
          [0]: "36"
          [1]: ""

Above list is basically being populated by parsing from my excel file. Sorry the code before this is not relevant so not showing that.

My issue is I want to update the empty string with a space. So I tried the code below:

myList .Where(w => w.Length == 0).Select(y=>y = "  ").ToList();

But it does not changes anything.

Am I missing something here. I can use a forach to loop through my list but I want to use linq.

Sorry if this is trivial.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1738

Answers (1)

Daniel Lorenz
Daniel Lorenz

Reputation: 4336

You have to assign the updated list back to the original variable. You can do something like this:

myList = myList.Select(y => string.IsNullOrEmpty(y) ? " " : y).ToList();

Upvotes: 5

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