Get Index of First non-Whitespace Character in C# String

Question

Is there a means to get the index of the first non-whitespace character in a string (or more generally, the index of the first character matching a condition) in C# without

Answer 1

A string is of course an IEnumerable so you can use Linq:

int offset = someString.TakeWhile(c => char.IsWhiteSpace(c)).Count();