How to check if object is an array of a certain type?

Question

This works fine:

var expectedType = typeof(string);
object value = \"...\";
if (value.GetType().IsAssignableFrom(expectedType))
{
     ...
}

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Answer 1

value.GetType().GetElementType() == typeof(string)

as an added bonus (but I'm not 100% sure. This is the code I use...)

var ienum = value.GetType().GetInterface("IEnumerable`1");

if (ienum != null) {
    var baseTypeForIEnum = ienum.GetGenericArguments()[0]
}

with this you can look for List, IEnumerable... and get the T.