Question

I have a list of five strings. I want to see if the variable passed in is equal to any of these five strings. Is there a better way than doing an if/else or case statement?

Answer 1

Assuming I understand what you mean, here’s an ugly, but simple to understand method, and we put the strings in to a list:

var data = new List<string>();
// add some:

data.Add("Stack");
data.Add("Overflow");
data.Add("Is");
data.Add("Awesome");

string test = "Stack";

// does our list contain our test?
bool found = data.Contains(test);