Check if list<t> contains any of another list
You could use a nested Any()
for this check which is available on any Enumerable
:
bool hasMatch = myStrings.Any(x => parameters.Any(y => y.source == x));
Faster performing on larger collections would be to project parameters
to source
and then use Intersect
which internally uses a HashSet<T>
so instead of O(n^2) for the first approach (the equivalent of two nested loops) you can do the check in O(n) :
bool hasMatch = parameters.Select(x => x.source)
.Intersect(myStrings)
.Any();
Also as a side comment you should capitalize your class names and property names to conform with the C# style guidelines.
Here is a sample to find if there are match elements in another list
List<int> nums1 = new List<int> { 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 };
List<int> nums2 = new List<int> { 1, 3, 6, 9, 12};
if (nums1.Any(x => nums2.Any(y => y == x)))
{
Console.WriteLine("There are equal elements");
}
else
{
Console.WriteLine("No Match Found!");
}
If both the list are too big and when we use lamda expression then it will take a long time to fetch . Better to use linq in this case to fetch parameters list:
var items = (from x in parameters
join y in myStrings on x.Source equals y
select x)
.ToList();