substring with linq??

Question

I've got collection of words, and i wanna create collection from this collection limited to 5 chars

Input:

Car
Collection
Limited
stackoverflow

Output:

car
colle
limit
stack

word.Substring(0,5) throws exception (length)

word.Take(10) is not good idea, too...

Any good ideas ??

Answer 1

Hey,

LINQ to objects for this scenario? You can do a select as in this:

from w in words
select new
{
  Word = (w.Length > 5) ? w.Substring(0, 5) : w
};

Essentially, ?: gets you around this issue.

Answer 2

var words = new [] { "Car", "Collection", "Limited", "stackoverflow" }; IEnumerable<string> cropped = words.Select(word => word.Substring(0, Math.Min(5, word.Length));