Lambda “if” statement?

Question

I have 2 objects, both of which I want to convert to dictionarys. I use toDictionary<>().

The lambda expression for one object to get the key is (i => i.name). For th

Answer 1

something along the lines of

collection1.ForEach(i => myDictionary.Add((i.name.length == 0 ? i.inner.name : i.name),value);

(untested) should do the trick if i.name is not null (an empty string), or

collection1.ForEach(i => myDictionary.Add((i.name ?? i.inner.name),value);

(also untested)