How to Correctly Group, Sum, and Count Products in LINQ with GroupBy?

Group, sum and count products using LINQ: GroupBy method

Problem Description

We have a collection of products that need to be grouped by product code. The goal is to create an object that contains the product name, product quantity, and total price for each product code.

Code snippet (error example)

The initial code uses GroupBy to group by product code and then calculate the sum and count for each group.

List<resultline> result = Lines
    .GroupBy(l => l.ProductCode)
    .SelectMany(cl => cl.Select(
        csLine => new ResultLine
        {
            ProductName = csLine.Name,
            Quantity = cl.Count().ToString(),
            Price = cl.Sum(c => c.Price).ToString(),
        })).ToList<resultline>();

The problem

While this code calculates the sum correctly, the count for all products always shows 1.

Example data

List<cartline> Lines = new List<cartline>();
Lines.Add(new CartLine() { ProductCode = "p1", Price = 6.5M, Name = "Product1" });
Lines.Add(new CartLine() { ProductCode = "p1", Price = 6.5M, Name = "Product1" });
Lines.Add(new CartLine() { ProductCode = "p2", Price = 12M, Name = "Product2" });

Expected results

<code>Product1: count 2   - Price:13 (2x6.5)
Product2: count 1   - Price:12 (1x12)</code>

Solution

The problem is using SelectMany to check every item in every group. The correct approach is:

List<resultline> result = Lines
    .GroupBy(l => l.ProductCode)
    .Select(cl => new ResultLine
    {
        ProductName = cl.First().Name,
        Quantity = cl.Count().ToString(),
        Price = cl.Sum(c => c.Price).ToString(),
    }).ToList();

Assuming products with the same code have the same name, we can use First() to get the product name. SelectMany flattens the result set, causing counting errors, while Select directly operates on the grouped results.

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