Why does .Equals not work in this LINQ example?

Question

Why does this yield an empty set?

Object[] types = {23, 234, "hello", "test", true, 23};

var newTypes = types.Select(x => x.GetType().Name)
    .Where(x => x.GetType().Name.Equals("Int32"))
    .OrderBy(x => x);

newTypes.Dump();

Answer 1

When you do your select you're getting an IEnumerable<String>. Then you're taking the types of each string in the list (which is all "String") and filtering them out where they aren't equal to "Int32" (which is the entire list). Ergo...the list is empty.

Answer 2

Equals works just fine, it's your query that isn't correct. If you want to select the integers in the list use:

var newTypes = types.Where( x => x.GetType().Name.Equals("Int32") )
                    .OrderBy( x => x );