What's your favorite LINQ to Objects operator which is not built-in? [closed]

Answer 1

ZipMerge

This is my version of Zip which works like a real zipper. It does not project two values into one but returns a combined IEnumerable. Overloads, skipping the right and/or left tail are possible.

public static IEnumerable ZipMerge(
        this IEnumerable first,
        IEnumerable second)
{
    using (var secondEnumerator = second.GetEnumerator())
    {
        foreach (var item in first)
        {
            yield return item;

            if (secondEnumerator.MoveNext())
                yield return secondEnumerator.Current;
        }

        while (secondEnumerator.MoveNext())
            yield return secondEnumerator.Current;
    }
}