Time for action – skipping save looping

Here is the first problem:

Say we have a List of names, and we want to create another List leaving the first few names:

  1. Copy the following code snippet as a query to LINQPad:
    string[] names = { "Sam", "Samuel", "Samu", "Remo", "Arnold", "Terry" };
    var skippedList = names.Skip(3);//Leaving the first 3.
    foreach (var v in skippedList)
      Console.WriteLine(v);
  2. Run the query. You will see the following output:
    Time for action – skipping save looping

What just happened?

Skip() creates an IEnumerable<T> instance that will have only the chosen few elements. In this case, we wanted to skip the first three elements. If you want to conditionally skip elements, ...

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