Datatable select with multiple conditions

Question

I have a datatable with 4 columns A, B, C and D such that a particular combination of values for column A, B and C is unique in the datatable.

Objective:

Answer 1

I found that having too many and's would return incorrect results (for .NET 1.1 anyway)

DataRow[] results = table.Select("A = 'foo' AND B = 'bar' AND C = 'baz' and D ='fred' and E = 'marg'"); 

In my case A was the 12th field in a table and the select was effectively ignoring it.

However if I did

DataRow[] results = table.Select("A = 'foo' AND (B = 'bar' AND C = 'baz' and D ='fred' and E = 'marg')"); 

The filter worked correctly!