1. What is the GroupBy operator?
2. What are the signatures of the GroupBy operators?
3. What does happening when we use the GroupBy operators?
The GroupBy operator allows grouping the elements of a sequence.
There are four versions of the GroupBy operator:
public static IEnumerable<IGrouping<TKey, TSource>> GroupBy<TSource,
TKey>(
this IEnumerable<TSource> source,
Func<TSource, TKey> keySelector);
public static IEnumerable<IGrouping<TKey, TSource>> GroupBy<TSource,
TKey>(
this IEnumerable<TSource> source,
Func<TSource, TKey> keySelector,
IEqualityComparer<TKey> comparer);
public static IEnumerable<IGrouping<TKey, TElement>> GroupBy<TSource,
TKey, TElement>(
this IEnumerable<TSource> source,
Func<TSource, TKey> keySelector,
Func<TSource, TElement> elementSelector);
public static IEnumerable<IGrouping<TKey, TElement>> GroupBy<TSource,
TKey, TElement>(
this IEnumerable<TSource> source,
Func<TSource, TKey> keySelector,
Func<TSource, TElement> elementSelector,
IEqualityComparer<TKey> comparer);
public interface IGrouping<TKey, TElement> : IEnumerable<TElement>
{
TKey Key { get; }
}
Example 1:
var expr = from c in Data.Customers
group c by c.Country;
foreach (IGrouping<Countries, Customer> key in expr)
{
Trace.WriteLine("Country: " + key.Key);
foreach (Customer item in key)
{
Trace.WriteLine("Customer name: " + item.Name);
}
}
Output:
Country: Italy
Customer name: Paolo
Customer name: Marco
Country: USA
Customer name: James
Customer name: Frank
Customer name: Frank
This is actually transformed by C# compiler into:
IEnumerable<IGrouping<Countries, Customer>> expr = Data.Customers.GroupBy(c => c.Country);
When we use the GroupBy operators it groups the source sequence by the key which is defined by function, it also allows us to map element from the source sequence into the result sequence using elementSelector function. After grouping the GroupBy operator yields the resulting groups within IGrouping interface. The overloaded versions of the GroupBy operator allow passing the custom comparers. By default the GroupBy operator use the EqualityComparer.
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