How to use LINQ to return substring of FileInfo.Name

Question

I would like to convert the below \"foreach\" statement to a LINQ query that returns a substring of the file name into a list:

IList fileNameSu         


        

Answer 1

Try something like this:

var fileList = files.Select(file =>
                            file.Name.Substring(0, file.Name.Length -
                            (file.Name.Length - file.Name.IndexOf(".config.xml"))))
                     .ToList();