Sort List C# in arbitrary order
- by Jasper
I have a C# List I.E. List<Food> x = new List<Food> () ;
This list is populated with this class
Public class Food {
public string id { get; set; }
public string idUser { get; set; }
public string idType { get; set; }
//idType could be Fruit , Meat , Vegetable , Candy
public string location { get; set; }
}
Now i have this unsorted List<Food> list ; which has I.E. 15 elements.
There are 8 Vegetable Types , 3 Fruit Types , 1 Meat Types , 1 Candy Types
I would sort this so that to have a list ordered in this way :
1° : Food.idType Fruit
2° : Food.idType Vegetables
3° : Food.idType Meat
4° : Food.idType Candy
5° : Food.idType Fruit
6° : Food.idType Vegetables
7° : Food.idType Fruit //Becouse there isnt more Meat so i insert the
//next one which is Candy but also this type is empty
//so i start from begin : Fruit
8° : Food.idType Vegetables
9° : Food.idType Vegetables // For the same reason of 7°
10 ° Food.idType Vegetables
......
....
....
15 : Food.idType Vegetables
I cant find a rule to do this. Is there a linq or List.Sort instruction which help me to order the list in this way?
Update i changed the return value of idType and now return int type instead string so
1=Vegetable , 2=Fruit , 3=Candy 4=Meat
