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Agent Smith
Agent Smith

Reputation: 146

Creating an Array or List to Count Values

I want to Count the items in an associated array. I have written small piece of code but now I am thinking it will not work. What strategy should I use?

I have created a class

public class itemsList
{
     public string itemName;
     public int itemCount;
}

Calculation code is as follows (consider items in the following code an array)

foreach (var item in items)
{
     //this is pseudo, I want help in this
     if (itemsList.Contain("itemName", item)
          itemsList[item].itemCount++;
     else
          itemsList.Add(item, 1);
}

Please keep in mind this array has later to be changed to json in the following format.

"apples": 10,
"oranges": 4
....

Upvotes: 2

Views: 461

Answers (2)

Fabjan
Fabjan

Reputation: 13676

So as already mentioned, Dictionary<TKey, TValue> here is a better choice : 

private readonly Dictionary<string, int> ItemsDict = new Dictionary<string, int>();

Then all you need to do is:

string someItemName = "itemName";

if(!ItemsDict.ContainsKey(someItemName))
{
    ItemsDict.Add(someItemName, 1);
}
else 
{
    ItemsDict[someItemName]++;
}

Depending on what you need you might also want to use some class as a value:

public class itemsList
{
     public string itemName;
     public int itemCount;
}

...

private readonly Dictionary<string, itemsList> ItemsDict = new Dictionary<string, itemsList>();
// here we add an object
ItemsDict.Add(someItemName, myItem);

Upvotes: 1

Slaven Tojić
Slaven Tojić

Reputation: 3014

You could use LINQ GroupBy and create an anonymous class with properties itemName and itemCount. Each anonymous object stored inside the list result holds the item name and the count of the item.

var result = items.GroupBy(item => item)
                  .Select(group => new
                   {
                       itemName = group.Key,
                       itemCount = group.Count()
                   }).ToList();

Upvotes: 0

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