I'm building a word anagram program that uses a database which contains one simple table:
Words
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varchar(15) alphagram
varchar(15) anagram
(other fields omitted for brevity)
An alphagram is the letters of a word arranged in alphabetical order. For example, the alphagram for OVERFLOW would be EFLOORVW. Every Alphagram in my database has one or more Anagrams. Here's a sample data dump of my table:
Alphagram Anagram
EINORST NORITES
EINORST OESTRIN
EINORST ORIENTS
EINORST STONIER
ADEINRT ANTIRED
ADEINRT DETRAIN
ADEINRT TRAINED
I'm trying to build a LINQ query that would return a list of Alphagrams along with their associated Anagrams. Is this possible?
UPDATE: Here's my solution based on the suggestions below! Thanks all!
using (LexiconEntities ctx = new LexiconEntities())
{
var words = ctx.words;
var query =
from word in words
where word.alphagram == "AEINRST"
group word by word.alphagram into alphagramGroup
select new { Alphagram = alphagramGroup.Key, Anagrams = alphagramGroup };
foreach (var alphagramGroup in query)
{
Console.WriteLine("Alphagram: {0}", alphagramGroup.Alphagram);
foreach (var anagram in alphagramGroup.Anagrams)
{
Console.WriteLine("Anagram: {0}", anagram.word1);
}
}
}