Question

The problem is: I got a list of elements and then I use group by. I need to get another list where contains the half of elements from each group by.

How can I do that? I’m using LINQ.

UPDATE:

This is the first list that I get.

        XDocument xdoc = XDocument.Load(path);
        var conditions = from c in xdoc.Descendants("Condition")
                         select new
                         {
                             ObjectiveID = (int)c.Attribute("ObjectiveID"),
                             TypeID = (int)c.Attribute("TypeID"),
                             ProblemID = (int)c.Attribute("ProblemID"),
                             Ranges = (from r in c.Descendants("Range")
                                       select new
                                       {
                                           Decimals = (int)r.Attribute("Decimals"),
                                           Min = (decimal)r.Attribute("Min"),
                                           Max = (decimal)r.Attribute("Max")
                                       }).ToArray(),
                         };

That’s the original which I’m using. From that one, I only want to get the half of problems from each OBJECTIVEID.

If in the enummerable I have 2 elements of the same objectiveID, I must get only one. If I got one problem, I must get only one, If I have 5 I’d have 2 or 3.

Answer 1

I’m not sure what you’re asking — are you trying to get individual elements from each group into another list? If so, SelectMany is probably what you’re looking for.

var numbers = new[] { 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 };
var evensAndOdds = numbers.GroupBy(x => x % 2);
var evens = evensAndOdds.Where(g => g.Key == 0).SelectMany(g => g).ToList();
var odds =  evensAndOdds.Where(g => g.Key == 1).SelectMany(g => g).ToList();

Alternatively:

var evens = evensAndOdds.Single(g => g.Key == 0).ToList();

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Response to Edit

There’s an overload of Select that also includes an integer index — you can use this to filter out all the odd or even items to get half of the set.

You could change it to something like

Ranges = c.Descendants("Range")
          .Select((range,i) => new { range, i })
          .Where(pair => pair.i % 2 == 0) // select only even items
          .Select(pair => new {
               Decimals = (int)pair.range.Attribute("Decimals"),
               ... etc...
          })
          .ToArray()

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I’m beginning to think I don’t understand the question. If the problem is that you have data like

condition1: objectiveID = 2 problemID = 100
condition2: objectiveID = 2 problemID = 101

and you don’t want two different problemIDs for the same objectiveID, you can use GroupBy / SelectMany / Take to narrow down to only one problem per objectiveID

xdoc.Descendants("Condition")
    .GroupBy(c => c.Attribute("objectiveID").value)
    .SelectMany(group => group.Take(1))