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So i needed to write a method that gets all people that have the same email as each other and I came up with this:



// This is from our Framework, as we're not actually using 
// But this is basically a `Person.Where(x => x.IsActive)` query
// And returns all persons that are active
var people = Querier.Person.AttrQuery(x => x.IsActive).AsQueryable<Person>().ToList()M

// A 2D List, where every inner list is a set of duplicate people
var duplicates = new List<List<Person>> {new List<Person>()};
var last = new Person();

foreach (var person in people)
{
if (person.Email == last.Email)
duplicates.Last().Add(person);
else
duplicates.Add(new List<Person>());
}

// Remove all empty Lists and all Lists without any duplicates
duplicates = duplicates.Where(x => x.Count > 1).ToList();

// Here is where magic happens, I select all the lists
duplicates = duplicates
.SelectMany(x => x)
.GroupBy(x => x.Email)
.Select(x => new List<Person>(x.ToList()))
.ToList();


This returns correctly, but is also very verbose for something that could be done much easier with SQL. Is there any better way?









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    So i needed to write a method that gets all people that have the same email as each other and I came up with this:



    // This is from our Framework, as we're not actually using 
    // But this is basically a `Person.Where(x => x.IsActive)` query
    // And returns all persons that are active
    var people = Querier.Person.AttrQuery(x => x.IsActive).AsQueryable<Person>().ToList()M

    // A 2D List, where every inner list is a set of duplicate people
    var duplicates = new List<List<Person>> {new List<Person>()};
    var last = new Person();

    foreach (var person in people)
    {
    if (person.Email == last.Email)
    duplicates.Last().Add(person);
    else
    duplicates.Add(new List<Person>());
    }

    // Remove all empty Lists and all Lists without any duplicates
    duplicates = duplicates.Where(x => x.Count > 1).ToList();

    // Here is where magic happens, I select all the lists
    duplicates = duplicates
    .SelectMany(x => x)
    .GroupBy(x => x.Email)
    .Select(x => new List<Person>(x.ToList()))
    .ToList();


    This returns correctly, but is also very verbose for something that could be done much easier with SQL. Is there any better way?









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      So i needed to write a method that gets all people that have the same email as each other and I came up with this:



      // This is from our Framework, as we're not actually using 
      // But this is basically a `Person.Where(x => x.IsActive)` query
      // And returns all persons that are active
      var people = Querier.Person.AttrQuery(x => x.IsActive).AsQueryable<Person>().ToList()M

      // A 2D List, where every inner list is a set of duplicate people
      var duplicates = new List<List<Person>> {new List<Person>()};
      var last = new Person();

      foreach (var person in people)
      {
      if (person.Email == last.Email)
      duplicates.Last().Add(person);
      else
      duplicates.Add(new List<Person>());
      }

      // Remove all empty Lists and all Lists without any duplicates
      duplicates = duplicates.Where(x => x.Count > 1).ToList();

      // Here is where magic happens, I select all the lists
      duplicates = duplicates
      .SelectMany(x => x)
      .GroupBy(x => x.Email)
      .Select(x => new List<Person>(x.ToList()))
      .ToList();


      This returns correctly, but is also very verbose for something that could be done much easier with SQL. Is there any better way?









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      So i needed to write a method that gets all people that have the same email as each other and I came up with this:



      // This is from our Framework, as we're not actually using 
      // But this is basically a `Person.Where(x => x.IsActive)` query
      // And returns all persons that are active
      var people = Querier.Person.AttrQuery(x => x.IsActive).AsQueryable<Person>().ToList()M

      // A 2D List, where every inner list is a set of duplicate people
      var duplicates = new List<List<Person>> {new List<Person>()};
      var last = new Person();

      foreach (var person in people)
      {
      if (person.Email == last.Email)
      duplicates.Last().Add(person);
      else
      duplicates.Add(new List<Person>());
      }

      // Remove all empty Lists and all Lists without any duplicates
      duplicates = duplicates.Where(x => x.Count > 1).ToList();

      // Here is where magic happens, I select all the lists
      duplicates = duplicates
      .SelectMany(x => x)
      .GroupBy(x => x.Email)
      .Select(x => new List<Person>(x.ToList()))
      .ToList();


      This returns correctly, but is also very verbose for something that could be done much easier with SQL. Is there any better way?







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