I am trying to determine if there is a better way to execute the following query:
I have a List
of Pair
objects.
A Pair
is defined as
public class Pair
{
public int IDA;
public int IDB;
public double Stability;
}
I would like to extract a list of all distinct ID's (ints) contained in the List<Pair>
.
I am currently using
var pIndices = pairs.SelectMany(p => new List<int>() { p.IDA, p.IDB }).Distinct().ToList();
Which works, but it seems unintuitive to me to create a new List<int>
only to have it flattened out by SelectMany
.
This is another option I find unelegant to say the least:
var pIndices = pairs.Select(p => p.IDA).ToList();
pIndices.AddRange(pairs.Select((p => p.IDB).ToList());
pIndices = pIndices.Distinct().ToList();
Is there a better way? And if not, which would you prefer?
You could use Union()
to get both the A's and B's after selecting them individually.
var pIndices = pairs.Select(p => p.IDA).Union(pairs.Select(p => p.IDB));
You could possibly shorten the inner expression to p => new [] { p.IDA, p.IDB }
.
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