LINQ: GroupBy with maximum count in each group

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Published on 2010-06-03T16:53:48Z Indexed on 2010/06/03 17:24 UTC
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Hi,

I have a list of duplicate numbers:

Enumerable.Range(1,3).Select(o => Enumerable.Repeat(o, 3)).SelectMany(o => o)
// {1,1,1,2,2,2,3,3,3}

I group them and get quantity of occurance:

Enumerable.Range(1,3).Select(o => Enumerable.Repeat(o, 3)).SelectMany(o => o)
    .GroupBy(o => o).Select(o => new { Qty = o.Count(), Num = o.Key })

Qty   Num
3     1
3     2
3     3

What I really need is to limit the quantity per group to some number. If the limit is 2 the result for the above grouping would be:

Qty   Num
2     1
1     1
2     2
1     2
2     3
1     3

So, if Qty = 10 and limit is 4, the result is 3 rows (4, 4, 2). The Qty of each number is not equal like in example. The specified Qty limit is the same for whole list (doesn't differ based on number).

Thanks

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