Question

I had read data from an XML file into DataSet by using c# than I want to identify duplicate (completely the same ) rows in that set.
I tried such kind of grouping and that works!

var d= from r1 in table.AsEnumerable()
       group r1 by new
       {
            t0 = r1[0],
            t1 = r1[1],
            t2 = r1[2],
            t3 = r1[3],
            t4 = r1[4],
            t5 = r1[5],
            t6 = r1[6],
            t7 = r1[7],
            t8 = r1[8],
       }
       into grp
       where grp.Count() > 1
       select grp;

But the number of data columns can be differ, so I cannot apply static grouping in query like above. I had to generate the grouping array dynamically?

I don’t want to delete dublicate, I just want to find them!

Answer 1

var rows = table.AsEnumerable();
var unique = rows.Distinct(DataRowComparer.Default);
var duplicates = rows.Except(unique); // , DataRowComparer.Default);