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Using Aggregating Sum to get the total number of characters of all words

  

Imports System.IO
Imports System.Reflection
Imports System.Linq
Imports System.Xml.Linq

Public Class MainClass
   Public Shared Sub Main

        Dim words = New String() {"this", "is", "a test"}

        Dim totalChars = Aggregate word In words _
                         Into Sum(word.Length)

        Console.WriteLine("There are a total of " & totalChars & " characters in these words.")

   End Sub


End Class

   
    
  








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