Using Linq to find the element after a specified element in a collection
SkipWhile
is a method that takes a predicate and skips everything until the predicate is false. It returns that element and everything after.
var remainingPeople = collectionOfPeople.SkipWhile(p => !isThePerson(p));
if (remainingPeople.Count() == 1)
{
// the person was the last in the list.
}
var nextPerson = remainingPeople.Skip(1).First();
where isThePerson
is a method that takes a person and returns true if it is the person you are interested it.
You could do something like this:
IEnumerable<Person> persons = ..
var firstPersonAfterJack = persons.SkipWhile(p => p.Name != "Jack")
.ElementAt(1); //Zero-indexed, means second
The idea is to produce a sequence resulting in skipping elements until you meet the condition, then take the second element of that sequence.
If there's no guarantee that the query will return a result (e.g. a match is never found, or is the last element of the sequence), you could replace ElementAt
with ElementAtOrDefault
, and then do a null
-test to check for success / failure.
I notice you say in your question that you have an ordered list of people. If you could explain what that means in more detail, we might be able to provide a better answer (for example, we may not have to linear-search the sequence).