I have a data table and I want to perform a case insensitive group by over a column of data table (say Column1 of type string). I observed that normally LINQ to DataSet performs a case sensitive comparison. For example, if Column1 has two string values "Test" and "test", after applying group by it returns two separate rows with the values "Test" and "test", instead of one.
The query is:
var countGroupQuery = from table in dataTable.AsEnumerable()
group table by table.Field<string>(Column1) into groupedTable
select new
{
value = groupedTable.Key,
count = groupedTable.Count()
};
Is there any method to perform a case-insensitive group by so that in the above example I get only one row with one value (either "Test" or "test")? ToUpper or ToLower would actually change the values to either upper case or lower case instead of using at least one of the input values, so I don't want to use this:
group table by table.Field<string>(Column1).ToUpper() into groupedTable