With Linq now standard in .NET 3.5, there is no reason why we shouldn't use it. After all its full of features that can be used by any object that inherits the type IEnumberable. With such power at our fingertips, sorting, filtering, manipulation etc. etc. are available to us with fewer lines of code than previous needed.
One powerful feature of programing is Regular Expressions. These provide a concise and flexible means for identifying text of interest, such as particular characters, words, or patterns of characters. So whilst going over some old code of mine to extract data from a remote website, I decided to give the Regular Expression part of my code a face lift with Linq.
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