How to “zip” or “rotate” a variable number of lists?

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You can roll your own ZipMany instance which manually iterates each of the enumerations. This will likely perform better on larger sequences than those using GroupBy after projecting each sequence:

public static IEnumerable<TResult> ZipMany<TSource, TResult>(
    IEnumerable<IEnumerable<TSource>> source,
    Func<IEnumerable<TSource>, TResult> selector)
{
   // ToList is necessary to avoid deferred execution
   var enumerators = source.Select(seq => seq.GetEnumerator()).ToList();
   try
   {
     while (true)
     {
       foreach (var e in enumerators)
       {
           bool b = e.MoveNext();
           if (!b) yield break;
       }
       // Again, ToList (or ToArray) is necessary to avoid deferred execution
       yield return selector(enumerators.Select(e => e.Current).ToList());
     }
   }
   finally
   {
       foreach (var e in enumerators) 
         e.Dispose();
   }
}

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