I want to Pass the number of elements i want from string array stack

[wilnicm]

I don't have any special way i'm passing the number of elements I want. I don't really care what each element's string contain. Here is the issue I already created and have the string array with all of the elements created inside it. i just don't know how to create the logic or generate the proper code to either pass the number of element i want out of the number of elements that already exist in this string array. Here is my current code which is incomplete.

dirString is my String Array varible.
I want to pass it my random value to pick the
# of elements that i want. Examply dirString has 1600 elements in it. In my random value variable
I create a random value and i want to pass this value to return this # of elements from the stack of 1600 elements in the string array. I don't care whats in those elements i only care that it returns that number of element from the stack of 1600.

foreach (var FileString in dirString)
{
//Array.ForEach(dirString,dirString.SelectMany(dirString,

int MyRndVal = myRand.Next(min, max);

= dirString[count];
for (int i = 0; i <= MyRndVal; i++)
{
string name = Path.GetFileName(FileString);
string dest = Path.Combine(folderPath, name);
File.Move(FileString, dest);

wr.myfileNam = name;

wr.count = count++;

wr.MyTextPad(dirString, count);
}
}

[Arjay]

Based on your description it seems pretty straightforward.

// simulate a 'random' value
var randomValue = 3; 

// create the input list
var stringList = new List<String> { {"This"}, {"is"}, {"a"}, {"string"}, {"test." }};

// Print out the input list
Console.WriteLine("Original List");

foreach (var s in stringList)
{
    Console.WriteLine(String.Format("\t{0}", s));
}

// Extract the list elements from the original list based on
// the 'randomValue'. Start at the beginning of the list.
var subList = stringList.GetRange(0, randomValue);

// Print out the extracted values.
Console.WriteLine("\nSublist");

foreach (var s in subList)
{
    Console.WriteLine(String.Format("\t{0}", s));
}

Outputs:

Original List
        This
        is
        a
        string
        test.

Sublist
        This
        is
        a