How to check if any words in a list contain a partial string?

Question

    var list=alist.Contains(\"somestring\")

this matches whole string, how to see if any word in list has a substring matching \"somestring\"?

Answer 1

You can use the Enumerable.Any method:

bool contained = alist.Any( l => l.Contains("somestring") );

This is checking each element using String.Contains, which checks substrings. You previously were using ICollection<string>.Contains(), which checks for a specific element of the list.

Answer 2

var hasPartialMatch = alist.Split(' ').ToList()
      .Any(x => x.Contains("somestring"));