Using an Anonymous method to populate a property in an object initializer

Question

Assuming sr is an IEnumerable, I want to use code like this to do an inline calculation using two of the items from sr.Lines(). The problem is that the lambda is of type "lambda expression" and not a Decimal, which shares is expecting. Is there any way to do this type of inline method in an object initializer?

var trades =
 from line in sr.Lines()
 let items = line.Split('|')
 select new Trade
       {
         Total = () => { 
           return Convert.ToDecimal(items[1]) + Convert.ToDecimal(items[2]);
         },
         Name = items[3]
       }

Answer 1

You want a decimal expression, not a function:

var trades =
 from line in sr.Lines()
 let items = line.Split('|')
 select new Trade
       {
         Total = Convert.ToDecimal(items[1]) + Convert.ToDecimal(items[2]),
         Name = items[3]
       };