Csharp/CSharp Tutorial/LINQ/Concat

Concat appends one sequence to another

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
public class MainClass {
    public static void Main() {
        int[] seq1 = { 1, 2, 3 };
        int[] seq2 = { 3, 4, 5 };
        IEnumerable<int> concat = seq1.Concat(seq2);    //  { 1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5 }
        IEnumerable<int> union = seq1.Union(seq2);     //  { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 }
    }
}

Concatention by Using the Concat Operator

using System;
using System.Linq;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
public class MainClass {
    public static void Main() {
        string[] presidents = {"ant", "arding", "rison", "eyes", "over", "ackson"};
        IEnumerable<string> items = new[] {
                                   presidents.Take(5),
                                   presidents.Skip(5)
                                  }.SelectMany(s => s);
        foreach (string item in items)
            Console.WriteLine(item);
    }
}

Concat Prototype

using System;
using System.Linq;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
public class MainClass {
    public static void Main() {
        string[] presidents = {"ant", "arding", "arrison", "eyes", "over", "ackson"};
        IEnumerable<string> items = presidents.Take(5).Concat(presidents.Skip(5));
        foreach (string item in items)
            Console.WriteLine(item);
    }
}

Using Concat to merge the names of all customers and products

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
public class MainClass {
    public static void Main() {
        List<Customer> customers = GetCustomerList();
        List<Product> products = GetProductList();
        var customerNames =
            from c in customers
            select c.rupanyName;
        var productNames =
            from p in products
            select p.ProductName;
        var allNames = customerNames.Concat(productNames);
        Console.WriteLine("Customer and product names:");
        foreach (var n in allNames) {
            Console.WriteLine(n);
        }
    }
    static List<Product> GetProductList() {
        List<Product> empTree = new List<Product>();
        empTree.Add(new Product { ProductName = "A", Category = "O", UnitPrice = 12, UnitsInStock = 5, Total = 36, OrderDate = new DateTime(2005, 1, 1), Id = 1 });
        empTree.Add(new Product { ProductName = "B", Category = "O", UnitPrice = 2, UnitsInStock = 4, Total = 35, OrderDate = new DateTime(2005, 1, 1), Id = 2 });
        empTree.Add(new Product { ProductName = "C", Category = "O", UnitPrice = 112, UnitsInStock = 3, Total = 34, OrderDate = new DateTime(2005, 1, 1), Id = 3 });
        empTree.Add(new Product { ProductName = "D", Category = "O", UnitPrice = 112, UnitsInStock = 0, Total = 33, OrderDate = new DateTime(2005, 1, 1), Id = 4 });
        empTree.Add(new Product { ProductName = "E", Category = "O", UnitPrice = 1112, UnitsInStock = 2, Total = 32, OrderDate = new DateTime(2005, 1, 1), Id = 5 });
        empTree.Add(new Product { ProductName = "F", Category = "O", UnitPrice = 11112, UnitsInStock = 0, Total = 31, OrderDate = new DateTime(2005, 1, 1), Id = 6 });
        return empTree;
    }
    static List<Customer> GetCustomerList() {
        List<Product> empTree = new List<Product>();
        empTree.Add(new Product { ProductName = "A", Category = "O", UnitPrice = 12, UnitsInStock = 5, Total = 36, OrderDate = new DateTime(2005, 1, 1), Id = 1 });
        empTree.Add(new Product { ProductName = "B", Category = "O", UnitPrice = 2, UnitsInStock = 4, Total = 35, OrderDate = new DateTime(2005, 1, 1), Id = 1 });
        empTree.Add(new Product { ProductName = "C", Category = "O", UnitPrice = 112, UnitsInStock = 3, Total = 34, OrderDate = new DateTime(2005, 1, 1), Id = 1 });
        empTree.Add(new Product { ProductName = "D", Category = "O", UnitPrice = 112, UnitsInStock = 0, Total = 33, OrderDate = new DateTime(2005, 1, 1), Id = 1 });
        empTree.Add(new Product { ProductName = "E", Category = "O", UnitPrice = 1112, UnitsInStock = 2, Total = 32, OrderDate = new DateTime(2005, 1, 1), Id = 1 });
        empTree.Add(new Product { ProductName = "F", Category = "O", UnitPrice = 11112, UnitsInStock = 0, Total = 31, OrderDate = new DateTime(2005, 1, 1), Id = 1 });
        List<Customer> l = new List<Customer>();
        l.Add(new Customer { CompanyName = "A", Region = "R1", UnitsInStock = 1, Orders = empTree, CustomerId = 0 });
        l.Add(new Customer { CompanyName = "B", Region = "R2", UnitsInStock = 2, Orders = empTree, CustomerId = 1 });
        l.Add(new Customer { CompanyName = "C", Region = "R3", UnitsInStock = 3, Orders = empTree, CustomerId = 2 });
        l.Add(new Customer { CompanyName = "D", Region = "R4", UnitsInStock = 4, Orders = empTree, CustomerId = 3 });
        l.Add(new Customer { CompanyName = "E", Region = "R5", UnitsInStock = 5, Orders = empTree, CustomerId = 4 });
        return l;
    }
}
class Customer : IComparable<Customer> {
    public string CompanyName { get; set; }
    public string Region { get; set; }
    public List<Product> Orders { get; set; }
    public int UnitsInStock { get; set; }
    public int CustomerId { get; set; }
    public override string ToString() {
        return String.Format("Id: {0}, Name: {1}, Region: {3}", this.CustomerId, this.rupanyName, this.Region);
    }
    int IComparable<Customer>.rupareTo(Customer other) {
        if (other == null)
            return 1;
        if (this.CustomerId > other.CustomerId)
            return 1;
        if (this.CustomerId < other.CustomerId)
            return -1;
        return 0;
    }
}
class Product : IComparable<Product> {
    public string ProductName { get; set; }
    public string Category { get; set; }
    public int UnitPrice { get; set; }
    public int UnitsInStock { get; set; }
    public int Total { get; set; }
    public DateTime OrderDate { get; set; }
    public int Id { get; set; }
    public override string ToString() {
        return String.Format("Id: {0}, Name: {1} , Category: {3}", this.Id, this.ProductName, this.Category);
    }
    int IComparable<Product>.rupareTo(Product other) {
        if (other == null)
            return 1;
        if (this.Id > other.Id)
            return 1;
        if (this.Id < other.Id)
            return -1;
        return 0;
    }
}

Using Concat to merge two integer arrays into a single sequence

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
public class MainClass {
    public static void Main() {
        int[] numbersA = { 0, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 };
        int[] numbersB = { 1, 3, 5, 7, 8 };
        var allNumbers = numbersA.Concat(numbersB);
        Console.WriteLine("All numbers from both arrays:");
        foreach (var n in allNumbers) {
            Console.WriteLine(n);
        }
    }
}

Using Concat with array elements

using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Linq;
public class MainClass{
   public static void Main(){
       int[] numbers = { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 };
       int[] moreNumbers = { 10, 11, 12, 13 };
       var query = numbers.Concat(moreNumbers);
   }
}