Say I have an array like this
string [] fruits = {"watermelon","apple","apple","kiwi","pear","banana"};
Is there an built in function that allows me to query all the index of "apple" ? For example,
fruits.FindAllIndex("apple");
will return an array of 1 and 2
If there is not, how should I implement it?
Thanks!
LINQ version:
var indexes = fruits.Select((value, index) => new { value, index })
.Where(x => x.value == "apple")
.Select(x => x.index)
.ToList();
Non-LINQ version, using Array<T>.IndexOf() static method:
var indexes = new List<int>();
var lastIndex = 0;
while ((lastIndex = Array.IndexOf(fruits, "apple", lastIndex)) != -1)
{
indexes.Add(lastIndex);
lastIndex++;
}
.ToList() in the first method, your function will be lazy. This means if you ran indexes.Take(2), the function can stop executing once two indexes have been found, rather than finding ALL indexes first, then removing all but the first two.
One way would be to write like this:
var indices = fruits
.Select ((f, i) => new {f, i})
.Where (x => x.f == "apple")
.Select (x => x.i);
Or the traditional way:
var indices = new List<int>();
for (int i = 0; i < fruits.Length; i++)
if(fruits[i] == "apple")
indices.Add(i);
Pretty easy with an extension method.
var fruits = new[] { "watermelon","apple","apple","kiwi","pear","banana" };
var indexes = fruits.FindAllIndexes("apple");
public static class Extensions
{
public static int[] FindAllIndexes(this string[] array, string search) => array
.Select((x, i) => (x, i))
.Where(value => value.x == search)
.Select(value => value.i)
.ToArray();
}
