Merge multiple Lists into one List with LINQ

You’re essentially trying to zip up three collections. If only the LINQ Zip() method supported zipping up more than two simultaneously. But alas, it only supports only two at a time. But we can make it work:

var reds = new List<int> { 0x00, 0x03, 0x06, 0x08, 0x09 };
var greens = new List<int> { 0x00, 0x05, 0x06, 0x07, 0x0a };
var blues = new List<int> { 0x00, 0x02, 0x03, 0x05, 0x09 };

var colors =
    reds.Zip(greens.Zip(blues, Tuple.Create),
        (red, tuple) => new RGB(red, tuple.Item1, tuple.Item2)
    )
    .ToList();

Of course it’s not terribly painful to write up an extension method to do three (or more).

public static IEnumerable<TResult> Zip<TFirst, TSecond, TThird, TResult>(
    this IEnumerable<TFirst> first,
    IEnumerable<TSecond> second,
    IEnumerable<TThird> third,
    Func<TFirst, TSecond, TThird, TResult> resultSelector)
{
    using (var enum1 = first.GetEnumerator())
    using (var enum2 = second.GetEnumerator())
    using (var enum3 = third.GetEnumerator())
    {
        while (enum1.MoveNext() && enum2.MoveNext() && enum3.MoveNext())
        {
            yield return resultSelector(
                enum1.Current,
                enum2.Current,
                enum3.Current);
        }
    }
}

This makes things a lot more nicer:

var colors =
    reds.Zip(greens, blues,
        (red, green, blue) => new RGB(red, green, blue)
    )
    .ToList();