How do I group similar data into separate files?

[ppr (Peter Preuss)]

in general it is about grouping the data on the category:

[HowTo] Overview on different options for grouping data and processing the groups

This HowTo introduces on the different options for grouping data from a datatable in order to process the grouped data. Introduction Grouping data and processing the grouped data is a common scenario e.g. when the grouped data is to aggregate like summing up, find maximum, get the average or concatening items. Lets have a look on following data: [grafik] A possible scenario could be: Create a report containing following information: the region code the sum of CaseCount per RegionCode t…

Assign Activity:
LHS: TableList | DataType: List(Of DataTable)
RHS:

(From d in YourDataTableVar.AsEnumerable
Group d by k=d(“Category”).toString.Trim into=grp
Select t = grp.CopyToDataTable).toList

For each Activity - TypeArgument: DataTable Values: TableList

• iterate over DataTables from TableList
  • e.g use output DataTable Activity to generate a Text representation of the loop datatable
  • write it to a text file