tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9849891.post7088592623218853586..comments2008-07-18T15:01:28.592-04:00Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09225391328802972286noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9849891.post-70759056891464114442008-07-18T15:01:00.000-04:002008-07-18T15:01:00.000-04:00you can do something similar using LINQ.<BR/>create an array of string and use the the .Any feature in it.<BR/>for example<BR/> class Person<BR/> {<BR/> public string Name { get; set; }<BR/> public int Age { get; set; }<BR/> public string Gender { get; set; }<BR/> }<BR/> public static void Anything2()<BR/> {<BR/> // Create an array of Persons.<BR/> List lessthansign Person greaterthansign PersonList = new List lessthansign Person greaterthansign<BR/> { new Person { Name=&quot;John&quot;, Age=8, Gender=&quot;M&quot; },<BR/> new Person { Name=&quot;Smith&quot;, Age=4, Gender=&quot;M&quot; },<BR/> new Person { Name=&quot;Jane&quot;, Age=1, Gender=&quot;F&quot; }<BR/> }; <BR/> <BR/><BR/> // Determine whether any person over age 1 are also male.<BR/> bool male = PersonList.Any(p =&gt; p.Age &gt; 1 &amp;&amp; p.Gender == &quot;M&quot;);<BR/><BR/> Console.WriteLine(<BR/> &quot;There {0} Male persons over age one.&quot;,<BR/> male ? &quot;are&quot; : &quot;are not any&quot;);<BR/> }prashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15851326993717018198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9849891.post-78986629806062513202008-07-17T11:29:00.000-04:002008-07-17T11:29:00.000-04:00Then how about something sql-like?<BR/><BR/>if (i in [ "one", "two", "three"]) { blah blah blah }Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03606485402187426272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9849891.post-82788207710096326912008-07-17T11:26:00.000-04:002008-07-17T11:26:00.000-04:00if ( i == ( &quot;one&quot; || &quot;two&quot; || &quot;three&quot; ) ) { blah blah blah }<BR/>won&#39;t work in C# since it is strongly typed and the order of precedence is for &#39;()&#39; first. So when it evaluates is is looking at &quot;one&quot; as boolean which is not correct.<BR/>This works in C since C is loosely typed and anythng &gt;0 is true in Cprashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15851326993717018198noreply@blogger.com