Custom Linq Ordering

Question

I have over a thousand folders, each folder contains one or more files with the following names:

Unordered:

Alison.ext
Heather.ext
Molly.ext
Paula.ext
Sam.ext         


        

Answer 1

You didn't mention exactly what sort of objects you have in the list, but let's say it's some generic arrangement like so:

public class File {
  public string FileName { ... }
  public long FileSize { ... }
  /* elided */
}

Then, given an IEnumerable called, say, files, you can just do:

var result = files.OrderBy(f => f.FileName);