C# - elegant way of partitioning a list?

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I'd like to partition a list into a list of lists, by specifying the number of elements in each partition.

For instance, suppose I have the list {1, 2, ... 11}, and would like to partition it such that each set has 4 elements, with the last set filling as many elements as it can. The resulting partition would look like {{1..4}, {5..8}, {9..11}}

What would be an elegant way of writing this?

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public static IEnumerable<IEnumerable<T>> Partition<T>(this IEnumerable<T> list, int size)
{
    while (list.Any()) { yield return list.Take(size); list = list.Skip(size); }
}

and for the special case of String

public static IEnumerable<string> Partition(this string str, int size)
{
    return str.Partition<char>(size).Select(AsString);
}

public static string AsString(this IEnumerable<char> charList)
{
    return new string(charList.ToArray());
}
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