Zip

The Zip extension method acts upon two collections. It pairs each element in the two series together based on position. With a Func instance, we use Zip to handle elements from the two C# collections in pairs. If the series differ in size, the extra elements of the larger series will be ignored.

To take an example from the book “C# in a Nutshell”,

int[] numbers = { 3, 5, 7 };
string[] words = { "three", "five", "seven", "ignored" };
IEnumerable<string> zip = numbers.Zip(words, (n, w) => n + "=" + w);

Output:

3=three 5=five 7=seven

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