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I was asked “Why I never used LINQ?” \u00a0 I guess the real answer was, I\u00a0never thought about it. \u00a0I really had no good reason for not using LINQ other it was new and unfamiliar. \u00a0When I finally used LINQ; I found I was\u00a0getting rid of old habits and making code simpler and cleaner.
<\/b><\/p>\n

Example of code written in C#:<\/b><\/p>\n

foreach (Charges charge in (ary))
{
     if (charge.ChargeDescription.ToLower().Contains(\"total\"))
     {
         ary.Remove(charge);
     }
}
<\/pre>\n
Code converted to LINQ:<\/b><\/p>\n
var rslt = from Charges charge in ary where charge.ChargeDescription.ToLower().Contains(\"total\") select charge;

while(rslt.Count() > 0)
{
        Charges chargese = rslt.ElementAt(0);
        ary.RemoveAt(ary.IndexOf(Chargese));
}<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n
To this day I still use C# with a little LINQ to\u00a0simplify\u00a0my code. \u00a0 I use LINQ for validations, quick look up and data manipulations. \u00a0It is definitely a change from what I used to do, but worth learning. \u00a0What I like about the above code is I had eliminated the nested if without complicating the code.<\/p>\n
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