Question

Can I return more than one item in a select? For instance I have a List of Fixtures (think football (or soccer for the yanks) fixtures). Each fixture contains a home and away team and a home and away score. I want to get all the teams that drew. I want to use something like

IEnumerable<Team> drew = from fixture in fixtures                          where fixture.Played && (fixture.HomeScore == fixture.AwayScore)                          select fixture.HomeTeam && fixture.AwayTeam; 

I know this syntax is incorrect, what I don’t know is if it’s possible to do this. Would I need two queries and then concatenate them?

Edit: this is really a learning thing so it’s not critical to achieve this in any particular way. Basically, at this stage all i want is a list of teams that have drawn. An example usage might be that for a given list of fixtures i can find all of the drawn teams so that i could update their standings in a table by 1 point (3 for a win, 0 for a loss).

Answer 1

I think you’re looking for the Union method as follows:

IEnumerable<Team> drew = (from fixture in fixtures                      where fixture.Played                          && (fixture.HomeScore == fixture.AwayScore)                      select fixture.HomeTeam)                      .Union(from fixture in fixtures                      where fixture.Played                          && (fixture.HomeScore == fixture.AwayScore)                      select fixture.AwayTeam);