A method to count occurrences in a list

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How about something like this …

var l1 = new List<int>() { 1,2,3,4,5,2,2,2,4,4,4,1 };

var g = l1.GroupBy( i => i );

foreach( var grp in g )
{
  Console.WriteLine( "{0} {1}", grp.Key, grp.Count() );
}

Edit per comment: I will try and do this justice. 🙂

In my example, it’s a Func<int, TKey> because my list is ints. So, I’m telling GroupBy how to group my items. The Func takes a int and returns the the key for my grouping. In this case, I will get an IGrouping<int,int> (a grouping of ints keyed by an int). If I changed it to (i => i.ToString() ) for example, I would be keying my grouping by a string. You can imagine a less trivial example than keying by “1”, “2”, “3” … maybe I make a function that returns “one”, “two”, “three” to be my keys …

private string SampleMethod( int i )
{
  // magically return "One" if i == 1, "Two" if i == 2, etc.
}

So, that’s a Func that would take an int and return a string, just like …

i =>  // magically return "One" if i == 1, "Two" if i == 2, etc.

But, since the original question called for knowing the original list value and it’s count, I just used an integer to key my integer grouping to make my example simpler.

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