GroupBy String and Count in LINQ - linq

Question

I have got a collection. The coll has strings:
Location="Theater=1, Name=regal, Area=Area1"
Location="Theater=34, Name=Karm, Area=Area4445"
and so on. I have to extract just the Name bit from the string. For example, here I have to extract the text 'regal' and group the query. Then display the result as
Name=regal Count 33
Name=Karm Count 22
I am struggling with the query:
Collection.Location.GroupBy(????);(what to add here)
Which is the most short and precise way to do it?

Answer 1

Yet another Linq + Regex approach:
string[] Location = {
"Theater=2, Name=regal, Area=Area1",
"Theater=2, Name=regal, Area=Area1",
"Theater=34, Name=Karm, Area=Area4445"
};
var test = Location.Select(
x => Regex.Match(x, "^.*Name=(.*),.*$")
.Groups[1].Value)
.GroupBy(x => x)
.Select(x=> new {Name = x.Key, Count = x.Count()});
Query result for tested strings

Answer 2

Once you've extracted the string, just group by it and count the results:
var query = from location in locations
let name = ExtractNameFromLocation(location)
group 1 by name in grouped
select new { Name=grouped.Key, Count=grouped.Count() };
That's not particularly efficient, however. It has to do all the grouping before it does any counting. Have a look at this VJ article for an extension method for LINQ to Objects,
and this one about Push LINQ which a somewhat different way of looking at LINQ.
EDIT: ExtractNameFromLocation would be the code taken from answers to your other question, e.g.
public static string ExtractNameFromLocation(string location)
{
var name = (from part in location.Split(',')
let pair = part.Split('=')
where pair[0].Trim() == "Name"
select pair[1].Trim()).FirstOrDefault();
return name;
}

Answer 3

Here is another LINQ alternative solution with a working example.
static void Main(string[] args)
{
System.Collections.Generic.List<string> l = new List<string>();
l.Add("Theater=1, Name=regal, Area=Area"); l.Add("Theater=34, Name=Karm, Area=Area4445");
foreach (IGrouping<string, string> g in l.GroupBy(r => extractName(r)))
{
Console.WriteLine( string.Format("Name= {0} Count {1}", g.Key, g.Count()) );
}
}
private static string extractName(string dirty)
{
System.Text.RegularExpressions.Match m =
System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Match(
dirty, #"(?<=Name=)[a-zA-Z0-9_ ]+(?=,)");
return m.Success ? m.Value : "";
}