Problem with .equalsIgnoreCase

[Animelion]

Is there an easy way to do this ?

if(_houseColor.equalsIgnoreCase( "White" || "Red" || "Blue" || "Yellow" || "Black" || "Green" ) ){

This is as far as I got, I don't want to say .equalsIgnoreCase for each possibility.

All help is appreciated ~Bryan J. Casler

[CornedBee]

Not as such. You could compare against a regex, but that's a waste of speed IMO. You could also fill an array with the values and search through it. Or create a set. Something like this:

private static final Set<String> colourNames = new HashSet<String>(
    Arrays.asList(new String[]{ "red", "green", "blue", ... }));

// ...

if(colourNames.contains(colour.toLowerCase())) {
}

[Animelion]

Thanks CornedBee,
I had thought about doing something similar to that, but hoped I was missing a simpler solution. If anyone else has an easier method please post. ~Bryan J. Casler

[vagabon]

The array is the best way.