IQueryable .Except() is not resulting what I expect!

Question

I have the following object:

Line{ String Content; Type type;}

And I have, IQeryable lines, which I perform operation

Answer 1

lines is IQeryable. If you do not save its result, it will run every time you select from it. If Line does not override Equals and ==, that will create different objects each time, so Except cannot remove the previous object from new objects.

Now, a lot is missing, but try:

var linesList = lines.ToList(); // get results ones
var hasX = lines.Where(line => line.Content.Contains('x'));
var noX = lines.Except(hasX);