Best way to remove items from a collection

Question

What is the best way to approach removing items from a collection in C#, once the item is known, but not it\'s index. This is one way to do it, but it seems inelegant at be

Answer 1

If it's an ICollection then you won't have a RemoveAll method. Here's an extension method that will do it:

    public static void RemoveAll(this ICollection source, 
                                    Func predicate)
    {
        if (source == null)
            throw new ArgumentNullException("source", "source is null.");

        if (predicate == null)
            throw new ArgumentNullException("predicate", "predicate is null.");

        source.Where(predicate).ToList().ForEach(e => source.Remove(e));
    }

Based on: http://phejndorf.wordpress.com/2011/03/09/a-removeall-extension-for-the-collection-class/