Sending items in a LINQ sequence to a method that returns void
- by generalt
Hello all. Often while I'm dealing with LINQ sequences, I want to send each item to a method returning void, avoiding a foreach loop. However, I haven't found an elegant way to do this. Today, I wrote the following code:
private StreamWriter _sw;
private void streamToFile(List<ErrorEntry> errors)
{
if (_sw == null)
{
_sw = new StreamWriter(Path.Combine
(Path.GetDirectoryName(_targetDatabasePath), "errors.txt"));
}
Func<ErrorEntry, bool> writeSelector =
(e) => { _sw.WriteLine(getTabDelimititedLine(e)); return true; };
errors.Select(writeSelector);
_sw.Flush();
}
As you can see, I write a lambda function that just returns true, and I realize that the Select method will return a sequence of booleans- I'll just ignore that sequence. However, this seems a little bit noobish and jank. Is there any elegant way to do this? Or am I just misapplying LINQ?
Thanks.
