How to split an array into chunks of specific size?

Array.Copy has been around since 1.1 and does an excellent job of chunking arrays.

string[] buffer;

for(int i = 0; i < source.Length; i+=100)
{
    buffer = new string[100];
    Array.Copy(source, i, buffer, 0, 100);
    // process array
}

And to make an extension for it:

public static class Extensions
{
    public static T[] Slice<T>(this T[] source, int index, int length)
    {       
        T[] slice = new T[length];
        Array.Copy(source, index, slice, 0, length);
        return slice;
    }
}

And to use the extension:

string[] source = new string[] { 1200 items here };

// get the first 100
string[] slice = source.Slice(0, 100);

Update: I think you might be wanting ArraySegment<> No need for performance checks, because it simply uses the original array as its source and maintains an Offset and Count property to determine the 'segment'. Unfortunately, there isn't a way to retrieve JUST the segment as an array, so some folks have written wrappers for it, like here: ArraySegment - Returning the actual segment C#

ArraySegment<string> segment;

for (int i = 0; i < source.Length; i += 100)
{
    segment = new ArraySegment<string>(source, i, 100);

    // and to loop through the segment
    for (int s = segment.Offset; s < segment.Array.Length; s++)
    {
        Console.WriteLine(segment.Array[s]);
    }
}

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Performance of Array.Copy vs Skip/Take vs LINQ

Test method (in Release mode):

static void Main(string[] args)
{
    string[] source = new string[1000000];
    for (int i = 0; i < source.Length; i++)
    {
        source[i] = "string " + i.ToString();
    }

    string[] buffer;

    Console.WriteLine("Starting stop watch");

    Stopwatch sw = new Stopwatch();

    for (int n = 0; n < 5; n++)
    {
        sw.Reset();
        sw.Start();
        for (int i = 0; i < source.Length; i += 100)
        {
            buffer = new string[100];
            Array.Copy(source, i, buffer, 0, 100);
        }

        sw.Stop();
        Console.WriteLine("Array.Copy: " + sw.ElapsedMilliseconds.ToString());

        sw.Reset();
        sw.Start();
        for (int i = 0; i < source.Length; i += 100)
        {
            buffer = new string[100];
            buffer = source.Skip(i).Take(100).ToArray();
        }
        sw.Stop();
        Console.WriteLine("Skip/Take: " + sw.ElapsedMilliseconds.ToString());

        sw.Reset();
        sw.Start();
        String[][] chunks = source                            
            .Select((s, i) => new { Value = s, Index = i })                            
            .GroupBy(x => x.Index / 100)                            
            .Select(grp => grp.Select(x => x.Value).ToArray())                            
            .ToArray();
        sw.Stop();
        Console.WriteLine("LINQ: " + sw.ElapsedMilliseconds.ToString());
    }
    Console.ReadLine();
}

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Results (in milliseconds):

Array.Copy:    15
Skip/Take:  42464
LINQ:         881

Array.Copy:    21
Skip/Take:  42284
LINQ:         585

Array.Copy:    11
Skip/Take:  43223
LINQ:         760

Array.Copy:     9
Skip/Take:  42842
LINQ:         525

Array.Copy:    24
Skip/Take:  43134
LINQ:         638

You can use LINQ to group all items by the chunk size and create new Arrays afterwards.

// build sample data with 1200 Strings
string[] items = Enumerable.Range(1, 1200).Select(i => "Item" + i).ToArray();
// split on groups with each 100 items
String[][] chunks = items
                    .Select((s, i) => new { Value = s, Index = i })
                    .GroupBy(x => x.Index / 100)
                    .Select(grp => grp.Select(x => x.Value).ToArray())
                    .ToArray();

for (int i = 0; i < chunks.Length; i++)
{
    foreach (var item in chunks[i])
        Console.WriteLine("chunk:{0} {1}", i, item);
}

Note that it's not necessary to create new arrays(needs cpu cycles and memory). You could also use the IEnumerable<IEnumerable<String>> when you omit the two ToArrays.

Here's the running code: http://ideone.com/K7Hn2