Remove items from list 1 not in list 2

Question

I am learning to write lambda expressions, and I need help on how to remove all elements from a list which are not in another list.

var list = new List

        

Answer 1

You can do this via RemoveAll using Contains:

list.RemoveAll( item => !list2.Contains(item));

Alternatively, if you just want the intersection, using Enumerable.Intersect would be more efficient:

list = list.Intersect(list2).ToList();

The difference is, in the latter case, you will not get duplicate entries. For example, if list2 contained 2, in the first case, you'd get {2,2,4,5}, in the second, you'd get {2,4,5}.