Safely dereferencing FirstOrDefault call in Linq c#

Question

For brevity\'s sake in my code, i\'d like to be able to do the following: having a collection, find the first element matching a lambda expression; if it exists, return the valu

Answer 1

Why not just do:

stuff.Where(s => s.contains("bvi"))
     .Select(s => s.ToUpper())
     .FirstOrDefault()

If you have a "non-default default", you can do:

stuff.Where(s => s.contains("bvi"))
     .Select(s => s.ToUpper())
     .DefaultIfEmpty("Something Else")
     .First()