How to find the largest value column name in data table?

I need first three largest value column name in data table .except first row and totel.
for this datatable example…

month aaa bbb ccc ddd eee fff ggg Total
jan 13 65 27 5 14 48 44 216
feb 13 2 5 14 35 69
mar 1 1
Total 26 67 32 19 14 84 44 286

Hi @domsmgtmeet22

Try this

result = YourDataTableVariable.AsEnumerable().Select(Function(row) YourDataTableVariable.Columns.Cast(Of DataColumn)().OrderByDescending(Function(col) If(IsNumeric(row(col)), Convert.ToDouble(row(col)), Double.MinValue)).First().ColumnName).ToList()
columnNames  = String.Join(",", result)

Cheers!!

@domsmgtmeet22

OutputColumnNameString = String.Join(", ", 
    dataTable.Columns.Cast(Of DataColumn)()
        .Where(Function(col) col.ColumnName <> "Total")
        .OrderByDescending(Function(col) dataTable.AsEnumerable().Skip(1).Sum(Function(row) If(IsDBNull(row(col)), 0, Convert.ToInt32(row(col)))))
        .Take(3)
        .Select(Function(col) col.ColumnName)
        .ToArray()
)

Use Invoke code

please attach example .xml file

@domsmgtmeet22

Sequence33.xaml (12.2 KB)

Can you please share your expected output

Except row Total and column total

my expected output is fff-35, ddd-14, aaa-13

please share example xml. file