Linq, of course, need not work in isolation. It can, for example, be combined with regular expressions to extract specific string patterns from a larger string that converts the matched results into a traversable array. This can be especially useful in processing comma-separated value files (CSV files), for example, where data is formatted inside a text file, each entry being separated by a comma character. Both Linq and regular expressions can be used to read each value into a unique array element very quickly and easily. For example, consider an RTS game where human names must be generated for new units. The names themselves are stored in a CSV format and are divided into two groups: male and female. On generating a character, it can be either male or female, and an appropriate name must be assigned to them from the CSV data, as shown in the following code sample 6-24:

01 //Generate female name
02 //Regular Expression Search Pattern
03 //Find all names prefixed...