A lot of my web methods generate a list of strings from different sources that I want to quickly scan using the ".contains()" method.
Unfortunately the default method is case sensitive and, since I get information from different sources with differing casing-methods, my code will miss matches with slightly different casing.
string findMe = "String2Find";
List someStrings = new List{"one", "Two", "string2FIND", "Three"};
Console.WriteLine someStrings.contains(findMe);
==== Console ===
(false)
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The bad solution is to go thru the list using .tolower() to lowercase all the members and compare each one against the comparator -- with the advent of LINQ there's a new overload for the method which allows comparisons without regard to case:
string findMe = "String2Find";
List someStrings = new List{"one", "Two", "string2FIND", "Three"};
Console.WriteLine someStrings.contains(findMe, StringComparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase);
==== Console ===
(true)
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