LINQ with Skip and Take

Question

I used the below code to take some items from IEnumerable, but it is always returning the source as null and count as 0 and actually there are items exists in IEnumerable

private void GetItemsPrice(IEnumerable<Item> items, int customerNumber)
{
    var a = items.Skip(2).Take(5);
}

When i try to access a it has count 0. Anything goes wrong here?

Answer 1

Remember, that variable a in your code is a query itself. It is not result of query execution. When you are using Immediate Window to watch query (actually that relates to queries which have deferred execution otherwise you will have results instead of query), it will always show

{System.Linq.Enumerable.TakeIterator<int>}
    count: 0
    source: null

You can verify that with this code, which obviously has enough items:

int[] items = { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 };
var a = items.Skip(2).Take(3);

So, you should execute your query to see results of query execution. Write in Immediate Window:

a.ToList()

And you will see results of query execution:

Count = 3
    [0]: 3
    [1]: 4
    [2]: 5