IList question

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  1. Daniel Plomp
    Daniel Plomp avatar
    130 posts
    Member since:
    Feb 2004

    Posted 01 Sep 2010 Link to this post

    Hi all,

    Just a general question about an IList. I posted this around the web, but actually with Telerik Forums I'm almost certain I'll get an anwer! :)

    I want to remove some duplicates from an IList, but I'm not sure how to do it?
    I've a List<Contact> which contains three fields: a name and an emailaddress and a type.

    So I use it like this:
    contactList.Add(new Contact(item.Name, item.Email, "GMAIL"));

    What I want is to remove or mark records which have the same emailaddress.

    How can I do such thing within a generic list?

    Thanks!
    Daniel
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  3. Stuart Hemming
    Stuart Hemming avatar
    1622 posts
    Member since:
    Jul 2004

    Posted 07 Sep 2010 Link to this post

    Assume this ...
    public class Contact
    {
        public string Name { get; set; }
        public string Email { get; set; }
    }
    And a List defined as ...
    List<Contact> contacts = new List<Contact>
    {
        new Contact{Name="Stuart Hemming1", Email="sejhemming@gmail.com"},
        new Contact{Name="Stuart Hemming2", Email="sejhemming2@gmail.com"},
        new Contact{Name="Stuart Hemming3", Email="sejhemming3@gmail.com"},
        new Contact{Name="Stuart Hemming4", Email="sejhemming4@gmail.com"},
        new Contact{Name="Stuart Hemming5", Email="sejhemming5@gmail.com"},
        new Contact{Name="Stuart Hemming6", Email="sejhemming@gmail.com"}
    };
    Then you can get a list of contacts with duplicate Email values using ...
    contacts.GroupBy(c => new { Email = c.Email }).Select(g => g.ToList()).ToList().Where(l=>l.Count > 1);

    Am I helping yet?

    -- 
    Stuart
  5. Ivan Dimitrov
    Admin
    Ivan Dimitrov avatar
    78 posts

    Posted 07 Sep 2010 Link to this post

    Hi,

    • To remove some items you will need to create  a new list and populate it, because you could get an error that you cannot modify the collection. Also, List<T> supports removing at an index.
    • You can use directly Distinct.

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    Ivan Dimitrov
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  7. Stuart Hemming
    Stuart Hemming avatar
    1622 posts
    Member since:
    Jul 2004

    Posted 07 Sep 2010 Link to this post

    Ivan is right, of course, you will need a new list if you want the duplicates removed. Something like this would work...
    List<Contact> contacts = new List<Contact>
    {
        new Contact{Name="Stuart Hemming1", Email="sejhemming@gmail.com"},
        new Contact{Name="Stuart Hemming2", Email="sejhemming2@gmail.com"},
        new Contact{Name="Stuart Hemming3", Email="sejhemming3@gmail.com"},
        new Contact{Name="Stuart Hemming4", Email="sejhemming4@gmail.com"},
        new Contact{Name="Stuart Hemming5", Email="sejhemming2@gmail.com"},
        new Contact{Name="Stuart Hemming6", Email="sejhemming@gmail.com"}
    };
    var list = contacts.GroupBy(c => new { Email = c.Email }).Select(g => g.ToList()).ToList().Where(l=>l.Count > 1);
    List<Contact> dups = new List<Contact>();
    foreach (List<Contact> i in list)
    {
        dups.AddRange(i);
    }
    List<Contact> clean = contacts.Except(dups).ToList();
    Of course, the 'clean' list doesn't have any of the duplicate entries in, so you might want to post-process the 'dups' list.

    Ivan is also right that would could use Distinct, but then you'd have to go to the effort of writing a Comparer.

    -- 
    Stuart
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