Get default value if the result is empty with DefaultIfEmpty in CSharp

Description

The following code shows how to get default value if the result is empty with DefaultIfEmpty.

Example


using System;//from   w w w.jav  a  2s  . c  o m
using System.Linq;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;

public class MainClass {
    public static void Main() {
        string[] presidents = {"HTML","CSS"};

        string name =presidents.Where(n => n.Equals("H")).DefaultIfEmpty("Missing").First(); 
        Console.WriteLine(name);

        Console.WriteLine(name);

    }
}

The code above generates the following result.





















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