How to check if all list items have the same value and return it, or return an “otherValue” if they don’t?

Question

If all the items in a list have the same value, then I need to use that value, otherwise I need to use an “otherValue”. I can’t think of a simple and clear way of doing this

Answer 1

If a array is of type multidimension like below then we have to write below linq to check the data.

example: here elements are 0 and i am checking all values are 0 or not.
ip1=
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0

    var value=ip1[0][0];  //got the first index value
    var equalValue = ip1.Any(x=>x.Any(xy=>xy.Equals()));  //check with all elements value 
    if(equalValue)//returns true or false  
    {  
    return "Same Numbers";  
    }else{  
    return "Different Numbers";   
    }