Question

I have a collection:
[ A { ‘a’ => ‘1’, ‘b’ => [‘1’, ‘2’]}
B { ‘a’ => ‘2’, ‘b’ => [‘1′,’2′,’3’]} ]


I’m searching for a function to ‘duplicate’ items in this collection to make next result:
[ A1 { ‘a’ => ‘1’, ‘b’ => ‘1’}
A2 { ‘a’ => ‘1’, ‘b’ => ‘2’}
B1 { ‘a’ => ‘2’, ‘b’ => ‘1’}
B2 { ‘a’ => ‘2’, ‘b’ => ‘2’}
B3 { ‘a’ => ‘2’, ‘b’ => ‘3’} ]

How can i achive such result?

Answer 1

Not very clear about your definition of class A/B. I suppose your class looks like:

class Data
{
    public int a;
    public int[] b;
}

And prepare the data like:

var A = new Data { a = 1, b = new[] { 1, 2, } };
var B = new Data { a = 2, b = new[] { 1, 2, 3 } };
List<Data> original = new List<Data> { A, B };

Using .SelectMany to flatten the data:

var result = original.SelectMany(item => 
                          item.b.Select(x => 
                             new { a = item.a, b = x }))
                     .ToList();

Please ignore some bad programming habits in the code(like public fields), and feel free to suggest the coding-style of the last linq query.