C#: linq return boolean instead of string

Question

I want to select all the words from a list whose length is less or equal to 5. My current code only returns this:

true
false
false
true
true
true

I want the result to be the actual words.

static void Main()
{
    string[] words = { "hello", "Welcome", "Rolling", "in", "The", "Deep" };
    var shortWords = from word in words select word.Length <= 5;

    foreach (var word in shortWords) {
        Console.WriteLine(word);
    }

    Console.Read();
}

juharr · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-17 20:00:03Z

8

Looks like you meant to do

var shortWords = from word in words where word.Length <= 5 select word;

or just

var shortWords = words.Where(word => word.Length <= 5);

answered Feb 17, 2016 at 20:00

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