LINQ : Dynamic select

Question

Consider we have this class :

    public  class Data
{
    public string Field1 { get; set; }
    public string Field2 { get; set; }
    public string Field         


        

Answer 1

Another approach I've used is a nested ternary operator:

string col = "Column3";
var query = table.Select(i => col == "Column1" ? i.Column1 :
                              col == "Column2" ? i.Column2 :
                              col == "Column3" ? i.Column3 :
                              col == "Column4" ? i.Column4 :
                              null);

The ternary operator requires that each field be the same type, so you'll need to call .ToString() on any non-string columns.