Specify the sum of repeated comments in Column

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we can do it by grouping the data

[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…

e.g a LookUp Dictionary

Assign Activity:
myLKDict | Dictionary(Of String, int32) =

YourDataTableVar.AsEnumerable.GroupBy(Function (x) x("Comment").toString.Trim.).ToDictionary(Function (g) g.Key, Function (g) g.Count)