score:6

Accepted answer

If you mean that you want to iterate a sequence (IEnumerable) and invoke code for it, you can inplement an extension method with an action, that is invoked for each item in the sequence, e.g.:

public static void ForEach<T>(this System.Collection.Generic.IEnumerable<T> list, System.Action<T> action)
{
    foreach (T item in list)
        action(item);
}

This makes sense if you want to invoke small logic (one line) without implementing a foreach() block:

public class MyClass
{
    public void DoSomethingInOneLine()
    {
        // do something
    }
}

public static void Test(System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable<MyClass> list)
{
    list.ForEach(item => item.DoSomethingInOneLine());
}

score:0

I recently ran into this issue. I sometimes find I prefer the declerative syntax of LINQ...

this was my call

// wont compile:
from ticket in actualTickets
group ticket by ticket.ID into ticketGroup
select AddToBasket( exhibition, ticketGroup.First(), ticketGroup.Count() );

I couldn't think of a good reason to make AddToBasket() return anything, so I refactored as follows:

var pendingOpperations = from ticket in actualTickets
                            group ticket by ticket.ID into ticketGroup
                            select new Action( () => AddToBasket( exhibition, ticketGroup.First(), ticketGroup.Count() ) );

foreach ( var action in pendingOpperations ) action.Invoke();

score:0

Using this often:

Generic approach:

from item in sequence

// wrapping statements with lambda
let @void = new Func<bool>(() => {
   // whatever you like..
   return true;
})()

select item

If you want to do property assignment (bonus: example how to work with HTTP client :-):

..
// inside fluent LINQ query
let client = new HttpClient()

// initialise property and discard result
let @discard = client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization = new  AuthenticationHeaderValue("Basic", Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("user:pass")))

// now work with initialised client according to your logic..
select client.GetAsync("url").Result.Content.ReadAsStringAsync().Result

score:0

I had the same requirement recently, call the action reactively and I write a Do() stream processing function for 1) wrapping the action into a functor with a return value and 2) selecting on the stream.

public static IEnumerable<TSource> Do<TSource>(this IEnumerable<TSource> source, 
        Action<TSource> action) {

    TSource doSelector(TSource src) {
        action.Invoke(src);
        return src;
    }

    return source
        .Select(it => doSelector(it));
}

Please note that this utility function still has to convert the stream into List() to literally call the action for each stream item. 

var numbers = new List<int> { 1, 2, 3 };
var sum = 0;
numbers
    .Do(it => { sum += it; })
    .ToList();

score:5

If you don't need the result, you can fill the result with a random value (e.g. false).

var c = sam.Select( s => {s.calculate(4); return false;} );

score:10

You should use List<T>.ForEach here.

sam.ForEach(s => s.calculate(somenumber));

I think you use .Select in your question because you want to get the results(all the instances of A after calling calculate). You can get them directly by the variable sam. ForEach modifies each elements of sam, and the "changes" are applied to the list itself.


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