Enumerable.GroupBy(Of TSource, TKey, TResult) Method (IEnumerable(Of TSource), Func(Of TSource, TKey), Func(Of TKey, IEnumerable(Of TSource), TResult))
Groups the elements of a sequence according to a specified key selector function and creates a result value from each group and its key.
Namespace: System.Linq
Assembly: System.Core (in System.Core.dll)
'Declaration <ExtensionAttribute> _ Public Shared Function GroupBy(Of TSource, TKey, TResult) ( _ source As IEnumerable(Of TSource), _ keySelector As Func(Of TSource, TKey), _ resultSelector As Func(Of TKey, IEnumerable(Of TSource), TResult) _ ) As IEnumerable(Of TResult)
Type Parameters
- TSource
The type of the elements of source.
- TKey
The type of the key returned by keySelector.
- TResult
The type of the result value returned by resultSelector.
Parameters
- source
- Type: System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable(Of TSource)
An IEnumerable(Of T) whose elements to group.
- keySelector
- Type: System.Func(Of TSource, TKey)
A function to extract the key for each element.
- resultSelector
- Type: System.Func(Of TKey, IEnumerable(Of TSource), TResult)
A function to create a result value from each group.
Return Value
Type: System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable(Of TResult)A collection of elements of type TResult where each element represents a projection over a group and its key.
Usage Note
In Visual Basic and C#, you can call this method as an instance method on any object of type IEnumerable(Of TSource). When you use instance method syntax to call this method, omit the first parameter.In query expression syntax, a group by (Visual C#) or Group By Into (Visual Basic) clause translates to an invocation of GroupBy.
The following code example demonstrates how to use GroupBy(Of TSource, TKey, TResult)(IEnumerable(Of TSource), Func(Of TSource, TKey), Func(Of TKey, IEnumerable(Of TSource), TResult)) to group the elements of a sequence and project a sequence of results of type TResult.
Structure Pet Public Name As String Public Age As Double End Structure Public Sub GroupByEx3() ' Create a list of pets. Dim petsList As New List(Of Pet)(New Pet() _ {New Pet With {.Name = "Barley", .Age = 8.3}, _ New Pet With {.Name = "Boots", .Age = 4.9}, _ New Pet With {.Name = "Whiskers", .Age = 1.5}, _ New Pet With {.Name = "Daisy", .Age = 4.3}}) ' Group Pet objects by the Math.Floor of their age. ' Then project an anonymous type from each group ' that consists of the key, the count of the group's ' elements, and the minimum and maximum age in the group. Dim query = petsList.GroupBy( _ Function(pet) Math.Floor(pet.Age), _ Function(age, pets) New With _ {.Key = age, _ .Count = pets.Count(), _ .Min = pets.Min(Function(pet) pet.Age), _ .Max = pets.Max(Function(Pet) Pet.Age)} _ ) Dim output As New System.Text.StringBuilder ' Iterate over each anonymous type. For Each result In query output.AppendLine(vbCrLf & "Age group: " & result.Key) output.AppendLine("Number of pets in this age group: " & result.Count) output.AppendLine("Minimum age: " & result.Min) output.AppendLine("Maximum age: " & result.Max) Next ' Display the output. outputBlock.Text &= output.ToString() & vbCrLf End Sub ' This code produces the following output: ' Age group: 8 ' Number of pets in this age group: 1 ' Minimum age: 8.3 ' Maximum age: 8.3 ' ' Age group: 4 ' Number of pets in this age group: 2 ' Minimum age: 4.3 ' Maximum age: 4.9 ' ' Age group: 1 ' Number of pets in this age group: 1 ' Minimum age: 1.5 ' Maximum age: 1.5
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