Enumerable.Average<(Of <(TSource>)>) Method (IEnumerable<(Of <(TSource>)>), Func<(Of <(TSource, Nullable<(Of <(Int64>)>)>)>))

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[ This article is for Windows Phone 8 developers. If you’re developing for Windows 10, see the latest documentation. ]

Computes the average of a sequence of nullable Int64 values that are obtained by invoking a transform function on each element of the input sequence.

Namespace:  System.Linq
Assembly:  System.Core (in System.Core.dll)

Syntax

<ExtensionAttribute> _
Public Shared Function Average(Of TSource) ( _
    source As IEnumerable(Of TSource), _
    selector As Func(Of TSource, Nullable(Of Long)) _
) As Nullable(Of Double)

public static Nullable<double> Average<TSource>(
    this IEnumerable<TSource> source,
    Func<TSource, Nullable<long>> selector
)

Type Parameters

  • TSource
    The type of the elements of source.

Parameters

Return Value

Type: System..::.Nullable<(Of <(Double>)>)
The average of the sequence of values, or nullNothingnullptra null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic) if the source sequence is empty or contains only values that are nullNothingnullptra null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic).

Usage Note

In Visual Basic and C#, you can call this method as an instance method on any object of type IEnumerable<(Of <(TSource>)>). When you use instance method syntax to call this method, omit the first parameter.

Remarks

In Visual Basic query expression syntax, an Aggregate Into Average() clause translates to an invocation of Enumerable.Average.

Examples

The following code example demonstrates how to use Average<(Of <(TSource>)>)(IEnumerable<(Of <(TSource>)>), Func<(Of <(TSource, Int64>)>)) to calculate an average.

Note

This code example uses an overload of this overloaded method that is different from the specific overload that this topic describes. To extend the example to this topic, change the body of the selector function.

      ' Create an array of strings.
      Dim numbers() As String = {"10007", "37", "299846234235"}

      ' Determine the average number after converting each
      ' string to an Int64 value.
      Dim avg As Double = _
          numbers.Average(Function(number) Convert.ToInt64(number))

      ' Display the output.
      outputBlock.Text &= "The average is " & avg & vbCrLf

      ' This code produces the following output:
      '
      ' The average is 99948748093


      string[] numbers = { "10007", "37", "299846234235" };

      double average = numbers.Average(num => Convert.ToInt64(num));

      outputBlock.Text += String.Format("The average is {0}.", average) + "\n";

      // This code produces the following output:
      //
      // The average is 99948748093.

Version Information

Windows Phone OS

Supported in: 8.1, 8.0, 7.1, 7.0

Platforms

Windows Phone

See Also

Reference

Enumerable Class

Average Overload

System.Linq Namespace