再举一个如何使用SelectMany + Select来累积子数组对象数据的例子。

假设我们有一些带着手机的用户:

class Phone { 
    public string BasePart = "555-xxx-xxx"; 
}

class User { 
    public string Name = "Xxxxx";
    public List<Phone> Phones; 
}

现在我们需要选择所有用户的所有手机的basepart:

var usersArray = new List<User>(); // array of arrays
List<string> allBaseParts = usersArray.SelectMany(ua => ua.Phones).Select(p => p.BasePart).ToList();

SelectMany()方法用于抚平序列，其中序列的每个元素都是独立的。

我的类用户是这样的

class User
    {
        public string UserName { get; set; }
        public List<string> Roles { get; set; }
    }

主要:

var users = new List<User>
            {
                new User { UserName = "Reza" , Roles = new List<string>{"Superadmin" } },
                new User { UserName = "Amin" , Roles = new List<string>{"Guest","Reseption" } },
                new User { UserName = "Nima" , Roles = new List<string>{"Nurse","Guest" } },
            };

var query = users.SelectMany(user => user.Roles, (user, role) => new { user.UserName, role });

foreach (var obj in query)
{
    Console.WriteLine(obj);
}
//output

//{ UserName = Reza, role = Superadmin }
//{ UserName = Amin, role = Guest }
//{ UserName = Amin, role = Reseption }
//{ UserName = Nima, role = Nurse }
//{ UserName = Nima, role = Guest }

您可以对序列的任何项使用操作

int[][] numbers = {
                new[] {1, 2, 3},
                new[] {4},
                new[] {5, 6 , 6 , 2 , 7, 8},
                new[] {12, 14}
            };

IEnumerable<int> result = numbers
                .SelectMany(array => array.Distinct())
                .OrderBy(x => x);

//output

//{ 1, 2 , 2 , 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 14 }

 List<List<int>> numbers = new List<List<int>> {
                new List<int> {1, 2, 3},
                new List<int> {12},
                new List<int> {5, 6, 5, 7},
                new List<int> {10, 10, 10, 12}
            };

 IEnumerable<int> result = numbers
                .SelectMany(list => list)
                .Distinct()
                .OrderBy(x=>x);

//output

// { 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 10, 12 }

没有太多的技术-数据库与许多组织，每个有许多用户:-

var orgId = "123456789";

var userList1 = db.Organizations
                   .Where(a => a.OrganizationId == orgId)
                   .SelectMany(a => a.Users)
                   .ToList();

var userList2 = db.Users
                   .Where(a => a.OrganizationId == orgId)
                   .ToList();

都为所选组织返回相同的ApplicationUser列表。

第一个“项目”从Organization到Users，第二个直接查询Users表。

Select many就像SQL中的交叉连接操作，它需要叉乘。 例如，如果我们有

Set A={a,b,c}
Set B={x,y}

选择许多可以用来得到下面的集合

{ (x,a) , (x,b) , (x,c) , (y,a) , (y,b) , (y,c) }

注意，这里我们取集合A和集合B中的元素的所有可能组合。

下面是一个你可以尝试的LINQ示例

List<string> animals = new List<string>() { "cat", "dog", "donkey" };
List<int> number = new List<int>() { 10, 20 };

var mix = number.SelectMany(num => animals, (n, a) => new { n, a });

混合将有以下元素在平面结构，如

{(10,cat), (10,dog), (10,donkey), (20,cat), (20,dog), (20,donkey)}

SelectMany()的正式描述是:

将序列的每个元素投射到IEnumerable上并展开 产生的序列变成一个序列。

SelectMany()将结果序列平铺成一个序列，并对其中的每个元素调用结果选择器函数。

class PetOwner
{
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public List<String> Pets { get; set; }
}

public static void SelectManyEx()
{
     PetOwner[] petOwners =
         { new PetOwner { Name="Higa, Sidney",
              Pets = new List<string>{ "Scruffy", "Sam" } },
           new PetOwner { Name="Ashkenazi, Ronen",
              Pets = new List<string>{ "Walker", "Sugar" } },
           new PetOwner { Name="Price, Vernette",
              Pets = new List<string>{ "Scratches", "Diesel" } } };

// Query using SelectMany().
IEnumerable<string> query1 = petOwners.SelectMany(petOwner => petOwner.Pets);

Console.WriteLine("Using SelectMany():");

// Only one foreach loop is required to iterate
// through the results since it is a
// one-dimensional collection.
foreach (string pet in query1)
{
    Console.WriteLine(pet);
}

// This code shows how to use Select()
// instead of SelectMany().
IEnumerable<List<String>> query2 =
    petOwners.Select(petOwner => petOwner.Pets);

Console.WriteLine("\nUsing Select():");

// Notice that two foreach loops are required to
// iterate through the results
// because the query returns a collection of arrays.
foreach (List<String> petList in query2)
{
    foreach (string pet in petList)
    {
        Console.WriteLine(pet);
    }
    Console.WriteLine();
}
}

/*
   This code produces the following output:

    Using SelectMany():
    Scruffy
    Sam
    Walker
    Sugar
    Scratches
    Diesel

   Using Select():
   Scruffy
   Sam

   Walker
   Sugar

   Scratches
   Diesel
  */

主要的区别是每个方法的结果，而SelectMany()返回一个扁平的结果;Select()返回一个列表的列表，而不是一个扁平的结果集。

因此，SelectMany的结果是一个列表

{斯库菲，山姆，沃克，甜甜，划痕，迪塞尔}

你可以迭代每一项。但是对于select的结果，您需要一个额外的foreach循环来遍历结果，因为查询返回一个数组集合。

SelectMany方法将IEnumerable<IEnumerable<T>>分解为IEnumerable<T>，就像共产主义一样，每个元素都以相同的方式表现(愚蠢的家伙拥有与天才相同的权利)。

var words = new [] { "a,b,c", "d,e", "f" };
var splitAndCombine = words.SelectMany(x => x.Split(','));
// returns { "a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f" }