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Threw together a quick parallel stopwatch test. Not sure if the times prove anything. [csharp highlight="28,33,39"] using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Diagnostics; using System.Linq; using System.Threading.Tasks; namespace Scratch.ParallelProcessing { class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { const int count = 10000000; var source1 = Enumerable.Range(0, count).ToArray(); var source2 = Enumerable.Range(0, count).ToArray(); var source3 = Enumerable.Range(0, count).ToArray(); Stopwatch stopwatch = new Stopwatch(); var parallelElapsedTimes = new List<TimeSpan>(); var linearElapsedTimes = new List<TimeSpan>(); var linqSelectElapsedTimes = new List<TimeSpan>(); for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) { stopwatch.Reset(); stopwatch.Start(); var paral

Open file, read in lines, return individual words, get length of each word, Order by the length of the words, count each word of specific length. [csharp] static void Main() { var counts = OpenFileReturnWords(@"LoremIpsumDolor.txt") .AsParallel().Select(w=>w.Length) .AsParallel().ToLookup(k => k) .Select(c => new { Number = c.Key, CountOfNumber = c.Count() }) .OrderBy(c=>c.Number); foreach (var count in counts) Console.WriteLine("Count of {0:0000}: {1}", count.Number, count.CountOfNumber); Console.WriteLine("Total Count: {0}", counts.Sum(c=>c.CountOfNumber)); } public static IEnumerable<string> OpenFileReturnWords(string fileName) { using (var reader = new StreamReader(fileName)) { string line; while ((line = reader.ReadLine()) != null) { var wordsInLine = line.Split(new[] {' ', '.'}) .Where(word => !string.IsNullOrEmpty(word)); foreach (var word in wordsInLine) yield return word;

I've seen a lot of code to generate SQL statements. Invariable the programmer has an array of strings that they loop through (for example to put into an IN clause) and they always have a check to see of the current item is the first or last in the list. The typical usage is to have a StringBuilder and an if statement which determines if an extra comma (or plus sign or whatever) is added or left out. I say: Stop Doing That! Use the string.Join(). [csharp] var strings = new[] { "Darren", "Dawn", "Thomas", "Zoey" }; var results = string.Format("Replace \"{0}\" with {1} Question Marks: ({2})", string.Join(",", strings), strings.Length, string.Join(",", Enumerable.Repeat("?", strings.Length)) ); Console.WriteLine(results); [/csharp] The resulting output is: Replace "Darren,Dawn,Thomas,Zoey" with 4 Question Marks: (?,?,?,?)