MoreEnumerableCountByTSource, TKey(IEnumerableTSource, FuncTSource, TKey) Method

Applies a key-generating function to each element of a sequence and returns a sequence of unique keys and their number of occurrences in the original sequence.

Definition

Namespace: MoreLinq
Assembly: MoreLinq (in MoreLinq.dll) Version: 3.4.0+b99a6a8cc504caf2d48372fe54a2f8116c59cd0c
C#
public static IEnumerable<KeyValuePair<TKey, int>> CountBy<TSource, TKey>(
	this IEnumerable<TSource> source,
	Func<TSource, TKey> keySelector
)

Parameters

source  IEnumerableTSource
Source sequence.
keySelector  FuncTSource, TKey
Function that transforms each item of source sequence into a key to be compared against the others.

Type Parameters

TSource
Type of the elements of the source sequence.
TKey
Type of the projected element.

Return Value

IEnumerableKeyValuePairTKey, Int32
A sequence of unique keys and their number of occurrences in the original sequence.

Usage Note

In Visual Basic and C#, you can call this method as an instance method on any object of type IEnumerableTSource. When you use instance method syntax to call this method, omit the first parameter. For more information, see Extension Methods (Visual Basic) or Extension Methods (C# Programming Guide).

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