Question

I have the following structure in my code Dictionary<TKeys, TValues> data;.
I run some LINQ queries on both data types and often need to switch between Keys and Values.
What is the best way to get the list of Keys for given Values and vice versa?
Please, notice, that I usually have ‘IEnumerable’ and ‘IEnumerable’ as a result of my previous LINQ queries and would like to have something like IEnumerable<TKeys> Dictionary.GetAllKeys(IEnumerable<IValues> vals) and IEnumerable<TValues> Dictionary.GetAllValues(IEnumerable<IKeys> keys).

Maybe I need other data container for this task?

Regards,
Alexander.

Answer 1

 var values = dictionary.Where(x => someKeys.Contains(x.Key)).Select(x => x.Value);
 var keys = dictionary.Where(x => someValues.Contains(x.Value)).Select(x => x.Key);