Question

I’m trying to refactor this into a query:

 while (IsRunning)
 {

 ...

 //specialPoint is a string
 foreach (PointTypeItem pointTypeItem in PointTypeItemCollection)
    {
        foreach (PointItem pointItem in pointTypeItem.PointItemCollection)
        {
            //Replace the point name with point ID
            if (specialPoint.Contains(pointItem.PointName))
            {
                replacedCode += s.Replace(specialPoint , pointItem.ID);
                //I want to go back to the beginning point of while (IsRunning) from here
                //Simply putting continue; here won't work
            }
        }
    }
 }

I basically want to turn this into a LINQ query but I’m stuck writing one. Actually, I’m not even sure if I’m taking this the right direction.

var results = from pointTypeItem in ddcItem.PointTypeItemCollection
              where pointTypeItem.PointItemCollection.Any(pointItem => pointName.Contains(pointItem.PointName))
              select //What do I select?

Answer 1

var results = from pointTypeItem in ddcItem.PointTypeItemCollection
              from pointItem in pointTypeItem.PointItemCollection
              where specialPoint.Contains(pointItem.PointName)
              select pointItem.ID;

gets an IEnumerable<the type of pointItem.ID>.