我有一个具有Nullable DateOfBirth属性的Person对象。是否有一种方法可以使用LINQ来查询Person对象列表中最早/最小的DateOfBirth值?
这是我的开场白:
var firstBornDate = People.Min(p => p.DateOfBirth.GetValueOrDefault(DateTime.MaxValue));
Null DateOfBirth值被设置为DateTime。MaxValue,以便将它们排除在Min考虑之外(假设至少有一个具有指定的DOB)。
但是所有这些对我来说都是将firstBornDate设置为DateTime值。我想要的是与之匹配的Person对象。我是否需要像这样写第二个查询:
var firstBorn = People.Single(p=> (p.DateOfBirth ?? DateTime.MaxValue) == firstBornDate);
或者有没有更精简的方法?
注意:我之所以包含这个答案是为了完整性,因为OP没有提到数据源是什么,我们不应该做任何假设。
这个查询给出了正确的答案,但可能会慢一些,因为它可能必须对People中的所有项进行排序,这取决于People是什么数据结构:
var oldest = People.OrderBy(p => p.DateOfBirth ?? DateTime.MaxValue).First();
UPDATE: Actually I shouldn't call this solution "naive", but the user does need to know what he is querying against. This solution's "slowness" depends on the underlying data. If this is a array or List<T>, then LINQ to Objects has no choice but to sort the entire collection first before selecting the first item. In this case it will be slower than the other solution suggested. However, if this is a LINQ to SQL table and DateOfBirth is an indexed column, then SQL Server will use the index instead of sorting all the rows. Other custom IEnumerable<T> implementations could also make use of indexes (see i4o: Indexed LINQ, or the object database db4o) and make this solution faster than Aggregate() or MaxBy()/MinBy() which need to iterate the whole collection once. In fact, LINQ to Objects could have (in theory) made special cases in OrderBy() for sorted collections like SortedList<T>, but it doesn't, as far as I know.