Swap Words inside a String using LINQ

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I was working on a piece of code where the name of the person was stored like

“FirstName, LastName”

The requirement was to swap these two words and instead make it look like

“LastName, FirstName”

Here’s how to swap two words using LINQ in .NET 4.0

C#

public static void Main()
{
    string name = "Suprotim, Agarwal";
    name = string.Join(", ", name.Split(',').Reverse()).Trim();
    Console.WriteLine(name);
    Console.ReadLine();
}

VB.NET

Sub Main()
    Dim name As String = "Suprotim, Agarwal"
    name = String.Join(", ", name.Split(","c).Reverse()).Trim()
    Console.WriteLine(name)
    Console.ReadLine()
End Sub

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Suprotim Agarwal, Developer Technologies MVP (Microsoft Most Valuable Professional) is the founder and contributor for DevCurry, DotNetCurry and SQLServerCurry. He is the Chief Editor of a Developer Magazine called DNC Magazine. He has also authored two Books - 51 Recipes using jQuery with ASP.NET Controls. and The Absolutely Awesome jQuery CookBook.

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