CSharp - Use selector with Sum operator

Introduction

Instead of trying to sum the entire element, we can use the element selector to retrieve the member we are interested in summing.

Demo

using System;
using System.Linq;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
class Program/*from w ww .  ja v a  2 s  . c  o  m*/
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        IEnumerable<StudentOptionEntry> options =
          StudentOptionEntry.GetStudentOptionEntries();

        long optionsSum = options.Sum(o => o.optionsCount);
        Console.WriteLine("The sum of the Student options is: {0}", optionsSum);

    }
}
class StudentOptionEntry
{
    public int id;
    public long optionsCount;
    public DateTime dateAwarded;

    public static StudentOptionEntry[] GetStudentOptionEntries()
    {
        StudentOptionEntry[] empOptions = new StudentOptionEntry[] {
      new StudentOptionEntry {
        id = 1,
        optionsCount = 2,
        dateAwarded = DateTime.Parse("1990/12/31") },
      new StudentOptionEntry {
        id = 2,
        optionsCount = 10000,
        dateAwarded = DateTime.Parse("1992/06/30")  },
      new StudentOptionEntry {
        id = 2,
        optionsCount = 10000,
        dateAwarded = DateTime.Parse("1991/01/01")  },
      new StudentOptionEntry {
        id = 3,
        optionsCount = 5000,
        dateAwarded = DateTime.Parse("1997/09/30") },
      new StudentOptionEntry {
        id = 2,
        optionsCount = 10000,
        dateAwarded = DateTime.Parse("2000/04/01")  },
      new StudentOptionEntry {
        id = 3,
        optionsCount = 7500,
        dateAwarded = DateTime.Parse("1998/09/30") },
      new StudentOptionEntry {
        id = 3,
        optionsCount = 7500,
        dateAwarded = DateTime.Parse("1998/09/30") },
      new StudentOptionEntry {
        id = 4,
        optionsCount = 1500,
        dateAwarded = DateTime.Parse("1997/12/31") },
      new StudentOptionEntry {
        id = 101,
        optionsCount = 2,
        dateAwarded = DateTime.Parse("1998/12/31") }
    };

        return (empOptions);
    }
}

CSharp - Use selector with Sum operator

Introduction

Demo

Result

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