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satya
satya

Reputation: 2607

Comparing Two lists of Different Objects without for loop

I have two lists:

List<ObjA> AList;
List<ObjB> BList;

Now I have a method to compare individual Obj A to Obj B:

void CompareObjAToObjB(ObjA a, ObjB b)
{
   ....
}

where it asserts the individual elements of objects by comparing them. For now, I did by sorting the two lists using an unique identifier and then iterate the sorted list through a for loop and calling the Compare method.

Is there a better way to compare the lists using a Lambda expression or Linq?

Edit

ok. Here is My original code..

 Alist.sort((x,y) => string.Compare(x.acctNumber, y.acctNumber));
 Blist.sort((x,y) => string.Compare(x.acctNumber, y.acctNumber));

 for(int i =0; i< Alist.count; i++)
 {
      CompareObjAToObjB(Alist[i], Blist[i]);
 }

Alist contains the repo Object that I input where as BList is a Object that returns by a Service API call. Both contains the same data but in different structures.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2522

Answers (1)

Tim Schmelter
Tim Schmelter

Reputation: 460138

Assuming you want to find all items with the same identifier you could use Join:

var inBoth = from a in AList
             join b in BList
             on a.UniqueIdentifier equals b.UniqueIdentifier 
             select new { a, b };

foreach(var ab in inBoth)
    Console.WriteLine("A:{0} B:{1}", a.ToString(), b.ToString()); // if ObjA  and ObjB have a meaningful ToString

Upvotes: 5

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