[RESOLVED] Case insensitive search through list

Just a quick one - I've got a List(Of String) and want to check to see if it contains a specific string already. The problem is that I dont want this to be case sensitive and I cant seem to find any way of doing this with the built in Contains method - am I missing something obvious or do I have to just manually loop through the collection and use String.Compare ?

Cheers
Chris

You could use the LINQ method. Its something like this :

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list.Contains("WhateverYouLookFor", StringComparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase)

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Ah thanks thats exactly what I was looking for :) I knew it was just me being stupid...

though I think you might have meant extension method rather than LINQ method?

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Originally Posted by chris128

though I think you might have meant extension method rather than LINQ method?

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Looks like it uses the linq namespace, see for yourself here, but I might be wrong on that, maybe its just an extension method :p .