LINQ Group by in C#

Muhammad Maisam Abbas Feb 16, 2024

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This tutorial will discuss the method to group a list of objects by a value in C#.

LINQ Group by in `C#`

The LINQ integrates SQL-like query functionality with data structures in C#.

Suppose we have a list of objects of the following class.

class Car {
  public string Brand { get; set; }
  public int Model { get; set; }
}

Brand is the name of the car’s brand, and Model is the model number of the car. The Brand property of multiple objects can be the same, but the Model number needs to be different for each object. If we want to group the list of objects by the brand name, we can use the GroupBy method in LINQ. The following code example shows us how we can group objects of a specific class by some value with the GroupBy method in LINQ.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;

namespace linq_goup_by {
  public class Car {
    public string Brand { get; set; }
    public int Model { get; set; }
    public Car(string b, int m) {
      Brand = b;
      Model = m;
    }
  }
  class Program {
    static void Main(string[] args) {
      List<Car> cars = new List<Car>();
      cars.Add(new Car("Brand 1", 11));
      cars.Add(new Car("Brand 1", 22));
      cars.Add(new Car("Brand 2", 12));
      cars.Add(new Car("Brand 2", 21));
      var results = from c in cars group c by c.Brand;
      foreach (var r in results) {
        Console.WriteLine(r.Key);
        foreach (Car c in r) {
          Console.WriteLine(c.Model);
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Output:

Brand 1
11
22
Brand 2
12
21

In the above code, we first declared and initialized a list of objects cars and then grouped the values by the Brand property and save it in the results variable.

Author: Muhammad Maisam Abbas

Maisam is a highly skilled and motivated Data Scientist. He has over 4 years of experience with Python programming language. He loves solving complex problems and sharing his results on the internet.

LINQ Group by in C#

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LINQ Group by in `C#`