How to take all but the last element in a sequence using LINQ?

Question

Let\'s say I have a sequence.

IEnumerable sequence = GetSequenceFromExpensiveSource();
// sequence now contains: 0,1,2,3,...,999999,1000000
         


        

Answer 1

A slight variation on the accepted answer, which (for my tastes) is a bit simpler:

    public static IEnumerable AllButLast(this IEnumerable enumerable, int n = 1)
    {
        // for efficiency, handle degenerate n == 0 case separately 
        if (n == 0)
        {
            foreach (var item in enumerable)
                yield return item;
            yield break;
        }

        var queue = new Queue(n);
        foreach (var item in enumerable)
        {
            if (queue.Count == n)
                yield return queue.Dequeue();

            queue.Enqueue(item);
        }
    }