How to implement Task.WhenAny() with a predicate

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Wait for any task and return the task if the condition is met. Otherwise wait again for the other tasks until there is no more task to wait for.

public static async Task<Task> WhenAny( IEnumerable<Task> tasks, Predicate<Task> condition )
{
    var tasklist = tasks.ToList();
    while ( tasklist.Count > 0 )
    {
        var task = await Task.WhenAny( tasklist );
        if ( condition( task ) )
            return task;
        tasklist.Remove( task );
    }
    return null;
}

simple check for that

var tasks = new List<Task> {
    Task.FromException( new Exception() ),
    Task.FromException( new Exception() ),
    Task.FromException( new Exception() ),
    Task.CompletedTask, };

var completedTask = WhenAny( tasks, t => t.Status == TaskStatus.RanToCompletion ).Result;

if ( tasks.IndexOf( completedTask ) != 3 )
    throw new Exception( "not expected" );

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