Select with FuncTSource int TResult selector - Use to get ranking of elements

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On of the overloads of the Select extension methods also passes the index of the current item in the collection being selected. These are a few uses of it.

Get the “row number” of the items

var rowNumbers = collection.OrderBy(item => item.Property1)
                           .ThenBy(item => item.Property2)
                           .ThenByDescending(item => item.Property3)
                           .Select((item, index) => new { Item = item, RowNumber = index })
                           .ToList();

Get the rank of an item within its group

var rankInGroup = collection.GroupBy(item => item.Property1)
                            .OrderBy(group => group.Key)
                            .SelectMany(group => group.OrderBy(item => item.Property2)
                                                   .ThenByDescending(item => item.Property3)
                                                   .Select((item, index) => new 
                                                   { 
                                                       Item = item, 
                                                       RankInGroup = index 
                                                   })).ToList();

Get the ranking of groups (also known in Oracle as dense_rank)

var rankOfBelongingGroup = collection.GroupBy(item => item.Property1)
                            .OrderBy(group => group.Key)
                            .Select((group, index) => new
                            {
                                Items = group,
                                Rank = index
                            })
                            .SelectMany(v => v.Items, (s, i) => new
                            {
                                Item = i,
                                DenseRank = s.Rank
                            }).ToList();

For testing this you can use:

public class SomeObject
{
    public int Property1 { get; set; }
    public int Property2 { get; set; }
    public int Property3 { get; set; }

    public override string ToString()
    {
        return string.Join(", ", Property1, Property2, Property3);
    }
}

And data:

List<SomeObject> collection = new List<SomeObject>
{
    new SomeObject { Property1 = 1, Property2 = 1, Property3 = 1},
    new SomeObject { Property1 = 1, Property2 = 2, Property3 = 1},
    new SomeObject { Property1 = 1, Property2 = 2, Property3 = 2},
    new SomeObject { Property1 = 2, Property2 = 1, Property3 = 1},
    new SomeObject { Property1 = 2, Property2 = 2, Property3 = 1},
    new SomeObject { Property1 = 2, Property2 = 2, Property3 = 1},
    new SomeObject { Property1 = 2, Property2 = 3, Property3 = 1}
};

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