Question

Is there a more elegant way to accomplish this.

I have a string, where I would like to split and use individually in an if statement. For example:

string people = "John;Joe;Jane;Mike";
string[] names = people.Split(';');

if(person == "John" || person == "Joe" || person == "Jane" || person == "Mike")
{
    ....
}
else
{
    ....
}

There’s a better way of doing this, I guess.

Thanks.

Answer 1

string people = "John;Joe;Jane;Mike";
List<string> names = new List<string>(people.Split(';'));

if(names.Contains(person))
{
    ....
}
else
{
    ....
}

Collections are your friends 🙂